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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting 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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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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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."
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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
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"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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