“A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Happiness is the free play of the instincts, and so is youth.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 2 : On Youth
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Context: Throughout the whole world we see variations of this same subordination of the individual to the organisation of power. Phase by phase these ill-adapted governments are becoming uncontrolled absolutisms; they are killing that free play of the individual mind which is the preservative of human efficiency and happiness. The populations under their sway, after a phase of servile discipline, are plainly doomed to relapse into disorder and violence. Everywhere war and monstrous economic exploitation break out, so that those very same increments of power and opportunity which have brought mankind within sight of an age of limitless plenty, seem likely to be lost again, it may be lost forever, in an ultimate social collapse.
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Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000), Chapter 1, p. 9