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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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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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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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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"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."
Age

"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
Life

"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."
Life

"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
Books

"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."
Talent

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."
Art

"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."
Virtue

"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
May

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
Heart

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
Happiness
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