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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Youth

"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Youth

"We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Youth

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Youth

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Youth

"It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth."

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