"you can't put an old head on young shoulders" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Horatio Alger, chapter 30, in Driven From Home",
          "text": "\"The boy seems to me a very good boy, but you can't put an old head on young shoulders.\"",
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          "ref": "1901, Pauline E. Hopkins, Hagar's Daughter, ch. 25 (Google preview) (in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins, Oxford, 1990",
          "text": "\"Young men will be young men; you can't put an old head on young shoulders,\" he added, repeating trite sayings as if they were original with himself."
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          "ref": "1970 April 1, Punch Imlach, “In crystal ball, Bruins get nod for first place”, in Windsor Star, Canada, retrieved 2012-12-11, page 33",
          "text": "The one knock against Bobby is that he is not great defensively. I think that's a valid criticism, but not altogether fair. You can't put an old head on young shoulders.",
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          "ref": "2010 December 14, Dean Ritchie, “Gutted Eels are left reeling”, in Herald Sun, Australia, retrieved 2012-12-11",
          "text": "\"All of a sudden they are now short of experience in the centres and wing. As the old saying goes, you can't put an old head on young shoulders.\"",
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          "ref": "2011, Frank O'Connor, “Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, in The Best of Frank O'Connor, page 183",
          "text": "In those days I looked down on Stephens and repeated Russell's verdict with derision; which shows not only that you can't put an old head on young shoulders but that you shouldn't try.",
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          "word": "old head on young shoulders"
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          "word": "there's life in the old dog yet"
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