#young man

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#eat #found #i #man #nervous

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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