"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

Age, Knowledge, Perfection

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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

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"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

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"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 power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."

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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Ignorance

"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."

Community

"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."

Appreciation

"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."

Censorship

"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."

Time

"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

Evil

"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."

People

"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."

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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

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