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Eric Bentley

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

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"Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience."

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"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

Henry Miller, American Author
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bill Bryson, American Writer
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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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"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

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"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

George Orwell, British Author
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer
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