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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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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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"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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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
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"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
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"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
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