“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”
Nandera to Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
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