"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

Age, Adulthood, Childhood, Oil

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"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

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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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

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"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."

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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."

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"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."

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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."

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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

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"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."

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"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."

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"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

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