"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

Age, Intentions, Inventions, Killing

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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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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

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

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"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"The dew of compassion is a tear."

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

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"Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!"

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"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

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"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them."

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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

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