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“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
William James
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
William Shakespeare
“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”
William Faulkner
“She looks like something that would eat its young”
Dorothy Parker
“She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.”
Leonard Cohen
“It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator”
Cyril Connolly
“You can't put off being young until you retire.”
Philip Larkin
“There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick”
Kin Hubbard
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