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Quote by Samuel Butler
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for b

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. – Al Bernstein

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March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. – Hal Borland

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Seasons

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. – Hal Borland

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Seasons

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. – Agustin Gomez-Arcos

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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. – J. Edgar Hoover

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Age is just a number. Mine is unlisted. – Author Unknown

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Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. – J. Brotherton

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