"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"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."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

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