The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 148Atlantic Monthly Company, 1931 - American essays |
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Page 77
What youth lacks , of course , is experience . But experience is more than the mere passage of years ; it is more than the formation of habits , or the rise and decay of natural capacities . It is much to be suspected that life cannot ...
What youth lacks , of course , is experience . But experience is more than the mere passage of years ; it is more than the formation of habits , or the rise and decay of natural capacities . It is much to be suspected that life cannot ...
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Youth , with its wits matured but its experience defective , condemns life by reason and fails to understand why advancing years should reconcile it to a world the wrongs of which are great and slow to diminish . Experience removes this ...
Youth , with its wits matured but its experience defective , condemns life by reason and fails to understand why advancing years should reconcile it to a world the wrongs of which are great and slow to diminish . Experience removes this ...
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But experience will provide an answer beyond the scope of reason . The same young man will find himself incurring children despite his scruples ; and watching them through their first novel encounters with the world , he will come to ...
But experience will provide an answer beyond the scope of reason . The same young man will find himself incurring children despite his scruples ; and watching them through their first novel encounters with the world , he will come to ...
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