"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."

Age, Death, Dream, Youth

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"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

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