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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. Sartor Resartus, bk. 2, ch. 4 (1833-34).

Carlyle's ostensible narrator, Teufelsdröckh, disclaims this opinion, but agrees that "as young ladies are, to mankind, precisely the most delightful in those years; so young gentlemen do then attain their maximum of detestability."

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