"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

Age, Mother, Old

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"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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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."

George Orwell, British Author

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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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