One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly … - Anton Chekhov

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If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Anton Chekhov

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.

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