Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Youth
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As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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