Charles Gavin on youth

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

  Mark Twain1835–1910“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul

• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain1835–1910Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Project edition, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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