"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

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"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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

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