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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"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."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"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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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences."
Consequence
"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
Perception
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