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"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
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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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"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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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
Conformity
"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
Glory
"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
Humor
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
Life
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
Criticism
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
People
"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
Life
"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
Age
"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
Focus
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
Happiness
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