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"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."
France
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
Age
"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
Society
"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
Power
"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
Happiness
"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."
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"Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall."
Heaven
"Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair."
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"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."
Despair
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