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Quote by Georges Bernanos
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surro

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

Other quotes by Georges Bernanos

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Rights
Author
Georges Bernanos
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What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

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Deception/Lying
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Georges Bernanos
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Other Quotes from
Youth
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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

Category:
Youth

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

Category:
Youth

Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. – Proverb

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Youth

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