"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."

Age, History, Civilization, Nation

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"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision."

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