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

"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."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."

"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."

"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."

"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
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