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Hesiod

"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."

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"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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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.'"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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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."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

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