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Mar 20, 2004

Vernal Equinox

   salad days, noun:

A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.

Those were his salad days, and he thought they might last
forever.
--David Gergen, " 'They Love You. Watch Out,' " [1]New York
Times, February 2, 1997
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Salad days was coined by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra:
"My salad days,/ When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

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