From The Winter’s Tale
I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
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I can honestly say that I did all of that between 30 and 40. I started the decade as a single grad student in physics and finished it as a Marine Corps Iraq veteran with three kids.
It’s always edifying to be reminded of how humanity hasn’t really changed that much over the eons.
Did Shakespeare say this before or after he wrote Romeo and Juliet?