"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."

Age, Investigation, Profession, Study

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"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."

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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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

"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.'"

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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"No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."

"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."

"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."

"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

"Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world."

"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."

"Came but for friendship, and took away love."

"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt."

"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves."

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."