“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
“I have a sincere pity for any nation where old heads grow on young shoulders; youth is a matter, not only of years, but of temperament.”
— Alexander Herzen, book My Past and Thoughts
ibid, Ch. 7, s.3
My Past and Thoughts(1852-1870)
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