Question
Select the best evidence to support the statement "The narrator believes that young people who are overly cautious should not be trusted."
No doubt a youth who received impressions cautiously, whose love was lukewarm, and whose mind was too prudent for his age and so of little value, such a young man might, I admit, have avoided what happened to my hero. But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved. And this is even truer in youth, for a young person who is always sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth—that's my opinion!
"But," reasonable people will exclaim perhaps, "every young man cannot believe in such a superstition and your hero is no model for others."
No doubt a youth who received impressions cautiously, whose love was lukewarm, and whose mind was too prudent for his age and so of little value, such a young man might, I admit, have avoided what happened to my hero. But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved. And this is even truer in youth, for a young person who is always sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth—that's my opinion!
"But," reasonable people will exclaim perhaps, "every young man cannot believe in such a superstition and your hero is no model for others."
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GPT-4o mini
The best evidence to support the statement "The narrator believes that young people who are overly cautious should not be trusted" is found in the phrase: "a young person who is always sensible is to be suspected and is of little worth—that's my opinion!" This directly indicates the narrator's skepticism towards overly cautious young people, suggesting that their cautiousness diminishes their value and reliability.