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full of hope, for
they are naturally as hot-blooded as those who are drunken with wine, and
besides they have
not yet experienced many failures. For
the most part they live in hope, for hope is concerned with the future as memory
is with the past. For the young the future is long, the past short; for in the
morning of life it is not possible for them to remember anything, but they have
everything to hope; which makes them easy to deceive, for they readily hope.
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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