"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."

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"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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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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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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