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... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
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... youth . The world of my twenties was a middle - aged world , and youth was something to be got through as quickly as possible so that maturity might be reached . The young things of the present day , at least in that middle - class to ...
... youth . The world of my twenties was a middle - aged world , and youth was something to be got through as quickly as possible so that maturity might be reached . The young things of the present day , at least in that middle - class to ...
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... 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 tran- quillity of the evening . Old age has ...
... 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 tran- quillity of the evening . Old age has ...
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