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\u201cYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Herbert Henry Asquith<\/strong>, British Prime Minister<\/p>\n

Essay in Paisley Hospital\u2019s Carnival Magazine, Seestu<\/em>!, Paisley, Scotland; cited in \u201cAsquith on Youth\u201d (9 April 1923) Dundee Evening Telegraph and Post<\/em>, Angus, Scotland, column 1, p. 6; online via The British Newspaper Archive, [subscription service], www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> [Newspaper article, citing an Asquith magazine contribution published the same day.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting to-day on youth in Paisley Hospital Carnival Magazine<\/em>, Seestu, Mr. Asquith says Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.<\/span> We take its hopefulness, its zest, and its vigour for granted, and hardly notice them, because we have no other experience with which to compare them. Thus it is only in age that we fully enjoy our youth. This is one of the advantages of age, but not the only one. In age, just because we have material for comparison, we become less critical, less dictatorial, and more hopeful. We learn among other things that nothing is ever finally lost, and that it is always worth while to begin again.\u201d (p. 6)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: While The Dundee Evening Telegraph <\/em>did not include quotation marks when citing Asquith\u2019s remarks, another account a few days later did cite the words as a Asquith quote: \u201cWhen we are old we know that the best thing of all would be to be young again,\u201d writes Mr. Asquith in a contribution to the symposium on \u201cYouth and Age\u201d in the hospital carnival journal, \u201cThe Seeto Special,\u201d issued in Paisley. \u201cYouth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. We take its hopefulness, its zest, and its vigour for granted, and hardly notice them, because we have no other experience with which to compare them.\u201d<\/p>\n

To date, Repeat Right editors have not been able to locate a copy of the original Paisley Hospital’s Carnival Magazine<\/em> article cited by both newspapers.<\/p>\n

[Secondary source:<\/em> “If Youth but Knew” (13 April 1923)Western Gazette,<\/em> Yeovil, England, column 3, p. 5; online via British Newspaper Archive.]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5819c-40e2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong> [Featured source]<\/span>: “Asquith on Youth” (9 April 1923) Dundee Evening Telegraph, <\/em>online via The British Newspaper Archive [subscription service]: http:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/viewer\/bl\/0000563\/19230409\/066\/0006<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Source note]<\/span>: “If Youth but Knew” (13 April 1923) Western Gazette, <\/em>online via The British Newspaper Archive [subscription service]: http:\/\/www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk\/viewer\/bl\/0000407\/19230413\/013\/0005<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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