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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
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