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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully...more

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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or givin...more

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

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The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to th...more

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If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

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But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. Yo...more

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at l...more