"At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training."

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"At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training."

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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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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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"The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb."

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"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"

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"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life."

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"The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old."

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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."

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