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"I am life,' the girl said.'What?' he said, startled.'To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I'm life and when you're done with me, some of it rubs off on you. You don't feel so old now, do you? With me here in the squib beside you.'Nick said, 'I'm thirty-four and I don't feel old. As a matter of fact, sitting here with you makes me feel older, not younger. Nothing is rubbing off.''It will,' she said."

"You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it."

"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."

"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."

"The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love."
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"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."

"Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."

"I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied."

"What splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst."

"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."

"Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you."

"In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them."
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