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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."
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"These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels."
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"I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways."
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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."
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"Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too."
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"I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious."
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"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
Fate
"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
Confidence
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
Fact
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing
"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
Wisdom
"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
Intelligence
"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."
Education
"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Mystery
"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
Community
"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
Fact
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