"Youth is the best season wherein to acquire knowledge, tis a season when we are freest from care, the mind is then unencumbered & more capable of receiving impressions than in an advanced age—in youth the mind is like a tender twig, which you may bend as you please, but in age like a sturdy oak and hard to move."
— Adams, Abigail (1744-1818)
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Work Title
Date
1762-1763
Metaphor
"Youth is the best season wherein to acquire knowledge, tis a season when we are freest from care, the mind is then unencumbered & more capable of receiving impressions than in an advanced age—in youth the mind is like a tender twig, which you may bend as you please, but in age like a sturdy oak and hard to move."
Metaphor in Context
Youth is the best season wherein to acquire knowledge, tis a season when we are freest from care, the mind is then unencumbered & more capable of receiving impressions than in an advanced age—in youth the mind is like a tender twig, which you may bend as you please, but in age like a sturdy oak and hard to move.
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Provenance
contributed by Suzanne Morgen
Citation
Levin, Phyllis Lee. Abigail Adams: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001, p. 6. Link to Google Books .
Date of Entry
12/06/2009
Date of Review
06/16/2010
