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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People

"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
People

"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
Truth

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy

"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
Nothing

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
Love

"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
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