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"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."
Greatness
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
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"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
Age
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
Thought
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
Heart
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