“It's both ludicrous and embarrassing to recall one's youth.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Snæfríður
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part II: The Fair Maiden
“Arcadians both, in youth both flourishing,
Both match'd to sing, to answer both prepar'd.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
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