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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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"The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed."
Power

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."
Friendship

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
God

"If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire."
Success

"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves."
Compassion

"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day."
Gratitude

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
Money

"The only peace is being out of earshot."
Peace

"Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?"
People

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."
Imagination
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