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In My Youth I Hoped To Do Great Things; Now I Shall Be Satisfied To Get Through Without A Scandal.
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In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be
satisfied to get through without a scandal.
BAGEHOT
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In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do...
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.
It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work...
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- School for Scandal, Act i, Sc. 1...
You know, I've done a lot of bad stuff through the years.
I guess now I'm paying the price. But there's so many things I'll never get a chance to do....
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....
In my youth I wanted to be a great pantomimist--but I found I had nothing to say. -- Victor Borge