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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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