Hervey Allen

(298 votes)   The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen
1889-1949, American Author

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(80 votes)   Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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(70 votes)   In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

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(69 votes)   Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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(69 votes)   Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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(68 votes)   Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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(65 votes)   Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

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