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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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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
Politics

"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books

"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
Birds

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
Style

"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road

"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."
Writing

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
Writing

"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
Cultural

"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Humor

"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."
Money
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