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“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”
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- Source:
- Of Youth and Age.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e38a150d4ad9326bd6ad5199c6c84f636e8951558d95ef37e3a65e76fa35bd35
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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