#young man

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ↗

— William Temple

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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#discovered #his #idea #just #man

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#include #likely #living #make #man

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience