"The joy of the young is to disobey"
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"It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity."
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"Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds."
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"The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair."
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"I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem"
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"Age before beauty, and pearls before swine."
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"Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick."
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"Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak."
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"The young are always in extremes."
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"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes."
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"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
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"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
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"But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?"
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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
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"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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