"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

Age, Children, Curiosity, Parents

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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

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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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."

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"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."

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"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."

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"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

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"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."

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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

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"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."

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"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

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