"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

Age, Maturity

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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

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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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about."

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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

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"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."

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