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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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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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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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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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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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
Law
"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do."
Family
"Love the giver more than the gift."
Love
"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
Freedom
"If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters."
Opportunity
"It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them."
Philosophy
"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."
Friendship
"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life."
Education
"I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord."
People
"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"
Listening
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