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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
Woman
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
Age
"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
Religion
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