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"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
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