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Youth is defined by Webster's New World Dictionary as, "The time of life when one is young; especially: a: the period between childhood and maturity b: the early period of existence, growth, or development." Around the world the terms "youth", "adolescent", "teenager", and "young person" are interchanged, often meaning the same thing, occasionally differentiated. Youth generally refers to a time of life that is neither childhood nor adulthood, but rather, somewhere in-between. Youth also... full article at wikipedia

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I am not young enough to know everything.	Oscar Wilde
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. -- Lamentations 3:27		Bible
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.		French Proverb
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.	Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.	Wallace Stevens
Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.	Eric Hoffer
Young people need models, not critics...	John Wooden
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.	Josh Billings
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