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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
And both were young, and one was beautiful.
And both were young, and one was beautiful.
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what read more
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
[Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
[Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always read more
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the read more
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.