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"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"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?"
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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."
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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."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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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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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."
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"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."
Age
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."
People
"Reason is the servant of instinct."
Instinct
"If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours."
Man
"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
Animals
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."
Art
"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."
Animals
"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
Experience
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."
Health
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."
Nature
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