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"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
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