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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."
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"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."
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
"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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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
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