“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”

—  Paul Bourget

The Age for Love
Context: It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.

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