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Mark Twain1835–1910

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Mark Twain on youth

“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul

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Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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More about youth

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
I am not young enough to know everything.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Often credited to Oscar Wilde

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