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Ah, there are no children nowadays.

—Molière, 1673

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

—Cicero, 44 BC

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

—Mark Twain, 1876

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

—Donald Barthelme, 1964

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

—Herbert Hoover, 1936

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

—Lord Byron, 1813

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward VIII, 1957

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.

—Bessie Smith, 1926

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

—Margaret Atwood, 1976
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