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"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."

"Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences."

"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."
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"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example."


"Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell."


"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."


"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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