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Youth wonders at the amatory successes of middle-age. Youth knows not that
In matters amatory, age is no handicap:
A girl in her 'teens will make love to a gentleman of forty—and vice versa. In fact
The indiscreet impetuosity of youth succumbs before the astuteness of age.
The bachelor and the spinster both sometimes wonder that the benedick and the bride are still their rivals; for they know not that
In the amatorial art, matrimony is no handicap. In short,
There is no barrier at which love will balk. Nay more,
Love will forgive anything:
Did love demand it, love, though it might blush, would not blench. And