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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practic...

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he find...

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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Fame is the thirst of youth.

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another. B...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to d...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intellige...

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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bub...

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Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die...

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…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young p...

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It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in...

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Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a gener...

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As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that b...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life...

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Marcel ProustRemembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought...

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Marcel ProustThe Guermantes Way

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because the...

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We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of...

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I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wis...

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I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the...

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When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti...

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I was tired of her getting away with being so young.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped...

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...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl...

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I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change the...

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We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we...

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If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...

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The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown......

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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocabl...

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In youth we learn in age we understand.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

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For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W...

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There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...

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Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a youn...

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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on t...

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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of ...

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Few, if any, survive their teens.

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already tra...

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

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I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you.

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Maya AngelouI Shall Not Be Moved

I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their live...

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its li...

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Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after fort...

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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a count...

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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, ...

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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...

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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...

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Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings ...

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Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusi...

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I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was ...

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Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing spee...

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I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

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Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing spe...

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She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearin...

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled...

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Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it, until after it is gone. But someti...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and pro...

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But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adver...

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Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothi...

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His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only ...

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That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know every...

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...

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And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we kn...

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I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close ...

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But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall ...

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Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with v...

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When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting,Let your youth have ...

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Nikos KazantzakisZorba the Greek

The land is encrusted with ephemeral human conceits. That is not altogether good for a youngster; it...

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Thro...

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There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new...

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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 y...

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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious...

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

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself....

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray