W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Youth
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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