"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."

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"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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

Steve Case, American Businessman

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

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"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

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