Which sentence from mark twain's essay "advice to youth" conveys twain's opinion about why one’s youth is the right time to learn good values?
being told i would be expected to talk here, i inquired what sort of talk i ought to make. they said it should be something suitable to youth--something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. very well. i have a few things in my mind which i have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one’s tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. first, then. i will say to you my young friends--and i say it beseechingly, urgingly-- always obey your parents, when they are present. this is the best policy in the long run, because if you don't, they will make you. most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
be respect