George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Youth
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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Youth is just wasted on young people.
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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.
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