Youth

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 1, pt. 5, no. 1.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, pt. 5, no. 1.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 20, sec. 5.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. London: John Williams, 1648.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Crofts. Dover Publications, 1995.

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 12.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 12.

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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 12.

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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Menander. "Dis Exapaton [The Double Deceiver]." Plays and Fragments. c. 290 BC.

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Menander. "Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)." Plays and Fragments, translated by Maurice Balme. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1805, bk. 11, I. 108.

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Wordsworth, William. "The Prelude (1805)." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 11, l. 108.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Youth: A Narrative." Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Sept. 1898.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Youth." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 18.

If youth knew; if age could.

Henri Estienne

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Estienne, Henri. Les Premices. 1594, bk. 4, epigram 4.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Asquith

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Asquith, Herbert. Quoted in Observer. 15 Apr. 1923.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. London: John Williams, 1648.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Crofts. Dover Publications, 1995.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." McClure's Magazine, Aug. 1912.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." The Bohemian Girl: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.