Deception is always an evil, but in youth - youth, whose very faults should be open-hearted and impetuous, it lays the foundation of the worst possible faults of character. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Deception is always an evil, but in youth - youth, whose very faults should be open-hearted and impetuous, it lays the foundation of the worst possible faults of character.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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