Anton Chekhov: One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, comb

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old way — Anton Chekhov

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.

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