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The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

—Jane Austen, 1816

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

—Jean Cocteau, 1947

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924

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

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

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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BC

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

—Bessie Smith, 1926

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

—Seneca the Younger, c. 63

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940
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