Quote #16
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
More from Robert Browning
- What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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- What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:
- We loved, sir - used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was - But then, how it was sweet!