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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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Personal Development
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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Personal Development
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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Personal Development
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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Personal Development
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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Personal Development
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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Personal Development
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does."
Age
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
People
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
Fear
"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
Fool
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
Critics
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
People
"The cliche is dead poetry."
Poetry
"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."
Business
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
Wisdom
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Being
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