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Youth.—The canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew of youth contagious blastments are most imminent.—Shakespeare.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.—Moore.
In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.—Goethe.
Too young for woe, though not for tears.—Washington Irving.
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.—Victor Hugo.
O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.—Jules Janin.
The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.—Washington Irving.
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.—Rétif de la Bretonne.
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.—Bulwer-Lytton.