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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.
Now that I am 50, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things- including...
When I was young, all I wanted was to be ruler of the universe.
Now that isn't enough. -- Alex P. Keato...
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or no
but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened....
When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day.
Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. -- Alfred Toscanini...
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young.
Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part....
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before
at present, I am hardly sure of anything but wh...
When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who were poorer, had only a black-and-white set.
They bought a piece of cellophane, shaded from red through yellow to blue, and taped it ov...
When I was young, my position was: dynamite. It was only later that I realized that this sort of thing cannot be rushed.
It must rot away like a diseased member. -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), o...
When I was young we didn't have MTV; we had to take drugs and go to concerts. -- Steven Pearl

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