# What is youth

By [NormandStipek](https://paragraph.com/@normandstipek) · 2022-07-19

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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.

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