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"Youth is wasted on the young."
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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 secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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