“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.”
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
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