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“Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.”
“Yes you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.”
“Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side.”
“All the world's a mass of folly Youth is gay age melancholy: Youth is spending age is thrifty Mad at twenty cold at fifty Man is nought but folly's slave From the cradle to the grave.”
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginnings Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend!”
“We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.”
“If youth but knew and age were able Then poverty would be a fable.”
“Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care Youth like summer morn age like winter weather Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full s...”
“Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”
“She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.”
“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
“Age considers youth ventures.”
“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.”
