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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
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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."
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
Fortune
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