"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."

Age, Love, Heaven, Man

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"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."

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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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"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.'"

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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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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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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

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George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."

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"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."

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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

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"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."

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"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."

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