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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
Courage

"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
Age

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."
Love

"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
Nothing

"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."
Hope

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
Literature

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Patriotism

"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
Winter

"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'"
People

"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
Humor
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