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"Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience."

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."

"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

"Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there."

"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."

"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."

"Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience..."

"So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air."
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