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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"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."

"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."


"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."


"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."


"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."


"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."


"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
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