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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Source: The Way of All Flesh.
-- Samuel Butler (b), (Dec 4 1835-1902), English novelist, satirist, scholar; He was known for his ironic, witty semi-autobiographical novel, Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon, 1872.

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