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Gerald Brenan

"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."

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"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."

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

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

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"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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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
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"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
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