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“The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad - the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth, is detestable in later age”

Funny Humour Manners Ageing Youth And Age

Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“This is the pivot between youth and age, the thrilling place where everything seems visible, feels possible, where plans are made. On the one side you have childhood and adolescence, which are the murky ascent, and, on the other, you have the decline that is adulthood, old age, the inch-by-inch reckoning of that grand, brief vision with earthbound reality.”

Book:Did You Ever Have a Family

Source: Did You Ever Have a Family

“It is strange, it is very strange, and scarcely to be accounted for, that people advanced in life, and experienced in the uncertainty of all life's things, seem to have a confidence in the future which the young do not possess. They delay, they put off without fear or apprehension; they calculate as if with certainty upon the time to come; while eager youth, on the contrary, at the very name of procrastination conjures up every difficulty and obstacle, every change and chance, not alone within the range of probability, but within the reach of fate.”

Book:Agincourt : a romance / by G.P.R. James. Volume v.2 1844 [Leather Bound]

Source: Agincourt : a romance / by G.P.R. James. Volume v.2 1844 [Leather Bound]

“Non décidément je n'écrirai pas... Il ne faut pas, il faut "continuer"." C'est une lettre à moi-même. La jeune fille interrompt la survivante : "Tais-toi, tout dire, c'est mourir." Elles cohabitent dans le même corps, l'une cherche la vie, l'autre flirte encore avec la mort. Il m'a fallu du temps pour les réconcilier.”

Youth Old Age Life Changes Youth And Age Different Selves Different Stages Of Life Young Self And Old Self

Book:L'Amour après

Source: L'Amour après

“When you hit your seventies the whole world is basically one big creche and everyone in it an abandoned toddler. [Grace Winters]”

Perspective Aging Youth And Age

Book:The Life Impossible

Source: The Life Impossible