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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we sha...more

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A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the ...more

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash b...more

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I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotu...more

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The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were ...more

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and me...more

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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so f...more

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Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to ...more

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He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that ...more

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He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients...more