“Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.”
Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 6
“Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.”
— John Gay
Act II, sc. iv, air 22
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
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