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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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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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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."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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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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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
Man
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
Death
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
Nature
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Nature
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
Relationship
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
People
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