“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”
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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”
“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”
“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare”
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
“Every generation needs regeneration”
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending”
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.”
“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”
“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
“Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.”
“Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”