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Washington Irving

"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

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"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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