[Ads-l] Adage: Youth is wasted on the young (George Bernard Shaw variant April 22, 1931)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> As George Bernard once exclaimed, it seems a
> shame to waste it on children.
>

However he expressed it, it's the sad truth: old too soon, wise too late.
;-(

So, before he turned to discovering football talent, Lou Holz  was
discovering Broadway talent. And "comic paper dialect" = "comic-paper
[funny-paper] dialect," no doubt.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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