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"Youth is wasted on the young."
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"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
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"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
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"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."
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"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."
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"If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old."
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"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."
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"A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life."
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"Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget it on mornings like this one-fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front of the mountains, the Pig running cool and loud, Ronan climbing out of the passenger seat and knocking knuckles on the roof with teeth flashing, dewy grass misting the black toes of his shoes, bag slung over his blazer, narrow-eyed Adam bumping fists as they met on the sidewalk, boys around them laughing and calling to one another, making space for the three of them because this had been a thing for so long: Gansey-Lynch-Parrish."
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"Few, if any, survive their teens."
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"Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
Gender
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
Existence
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
People
"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
Education
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
Language
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