There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.Jessamyn West
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Jessamyn West
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
Jessamyn West
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Jessamyn West
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Aged,
Alive,
Between,
Communication,
Fact,
First,
Forgetfulness,
Ignorance,
Longer,
Middle,
Middle-aged,
Often,
Prevent,
Second,
Still,
Their,
Themselves,
Two,
Young,
Youthful
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