Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying abo

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. – Proverb

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Todays younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. – Al Capp

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Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. – Jim Bishop

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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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What you are is Gods gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God. – Leo Buscaglia

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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