"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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"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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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

John Knowles, American Novelist

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"Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play."

Usher Raymond, American Musician

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."

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"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."

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"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."

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"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"

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"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

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