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"Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines."

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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

— Tom Lehrer

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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

— Plutarch

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