If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no… — George Eliot
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
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