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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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Personal Development

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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Personal Development

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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Personal Development

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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Personal Development

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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Personal Development

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"We must go fast, because the race is against time."
Time

"It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it."
Being

"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them."
Home

"How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy."
Woman

"Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age."
Age

"Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do."
Woman

"I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years."
Work

"I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held."
Day

"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
People

"Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves."
Divorce
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