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Quote by Louise Bogan
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a h

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. – Louise Bogan

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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan

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Language
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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Women
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. – Louise Bogan

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Intelligence
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Other Quotes from
Youth
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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Youth

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9 – Bible

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Youth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Youth

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

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Youth

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. – Lord Chesterfield

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In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement. – Ren

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