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"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."
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"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
"...he was past youth, but had not reachedmiddle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him,and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-lookingyoung gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioninghim against his will, and offering my services unasked. I hadhardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one.I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance,gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate inmasculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neitherhad nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should haveshunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that isbright but antipathetic."
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"I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."
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