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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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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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"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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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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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"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
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"We're actors. We're the opposite of people."
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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."
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"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."
Life

"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
Power
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