"One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature."
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"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."
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"The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do."
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"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
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"Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it."
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"Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars."
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"Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept."
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"Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing."
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"Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young."
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"No one who is young is ever going to be old."
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more"
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"I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young."
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"I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name."
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"Youth is no excuse for sloppiness."
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"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"
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"So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee."
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"The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish."
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"Youth is above all a collection of possibilities."
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"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth."
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"When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do."
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