"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."

Joe Lando, American Actor

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"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

Malcolm Forbes, American Publisher

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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

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"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

Anthony Weiner, American Politician

Old, School

"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

Charley Pride, American Athlete

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"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

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"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

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"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

Life

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

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"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."

"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."

"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

"You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking."

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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."