Lady Mary Wortley Montagu :
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
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Youth
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Happiness
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Age and Aging
Gift it
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