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You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet ...more

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There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so d...more

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Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth i...more

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It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

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We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

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Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it ...more

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In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something ...more

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And they had no idea that they and many others were automatically pronounced deadly dull solely on that account. Only by the young of course, but then...more

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I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.