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Young Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
- To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
- Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold…
- Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
- We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:…
- Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
- Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
- The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn…
- To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of…
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- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
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- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood