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"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist
Age, Youth
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"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

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"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."
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"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."
Family, Children, Faults, Parents
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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
Freedom, Will
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"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."
Old, Proof
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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
Clock, Day, Right
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"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."
Content,
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"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
Care, Opinion
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"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
Beauty,
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"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."
Man, Poor, Poverty, Wishes
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
Love, First

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"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."

Grace Abbott, American Activist
Age, Education, Argument, Children
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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Balance, Individuality, Morals
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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing
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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Poetry, Reason
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic
Age, Country, Shakespeare
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

James Truslow Adams, American Historian
Age, Thought, Discipline, Value
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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Age, Censure, Folly, Man
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Age, Men, Forget, Old
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
Age, Individuality, Question
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
Age, Time
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