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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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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."
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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
Age
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Reading
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld."
People
"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."
Woman
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
Fishing
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
Prohibition
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
Creativity
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