"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

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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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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

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"One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all."

Happiness

"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."

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"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."

Solitude

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

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"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."

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"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."

Music

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

Death

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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