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“The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.”

Ifs Made Feelings Funny Next Names Morning Youth Taste Humorous Decent Halls Secretary Pauses Good Sense Good Taste Swamps Sloppy Reluctance

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.”

Ifs Funny Passion Water Cutting Missing Youth Humorous Constitution Drinking Superstitions Sixty Baths Lavinia

Book:Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics

Source: Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.”

Thinking Children Enough Funny Young Asks Answers Youth Trust Initiative Old People Elders

Author:Margaret Mead

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

Knows Love Inspirational Wisdom Funny Youth Equal Respect Equality

Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”

Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words