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wie niet dartelt heeft een korte jeugd

English translation: Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off

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Dutch term or phrase:	wie niet dartelt heeft een korte jeugd
English translation:	Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off

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Dutch term or phrase: wie niet dartelt heeft een korte jeugd

translation of a phrase from De Lof der Zotheid

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Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off

Explanation:
This is the only sentence I can find in the translation suggested by Writeaway that seems to match the proverb:

And to this purpose is that no small testimony of the proverb,
that says, "Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old
age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes
this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools."
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8efly10.txt

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Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off

Max Nuijens, MSc

one who does not play has a short childhood

Richard L. Weiss

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7 hrs confidence:

one who does not play has a short childhood

Explanation:
It's not a very poetic rendering, but that is what it looks like it says, prosaically.

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or rather, "a short youth." grows old quickly?

Richard L. Weiss
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Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off

Max Nuijens, MSc
Belarus
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