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Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Ellen Glasgow
Years, Want, Youth

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Ellen Glasgow
Men, Youth, Human Nature
Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Ellen Glasgow
Courage, Culture, Youth

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Ellen Glasgow
Age, Youth
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Ellen Glasgow
Youth, Cynicism

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Ellen Glasgow
Enemy, Generations, Youth
Ellen Glasgow (1902). “The Battle-Ground”, p.271, University of Alabama Press

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Ellen Glasgow
Reality, Age, Youth
Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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