Young Men

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    The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    Patty was a modest maid;
    Patty was of men afraid:
    Patty grew her fears to lose,
    And grew so brave, she lost her nose.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)