Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to L…

Oscar Wilde
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.565, Wordsworth Editions
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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