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"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"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."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"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."

"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."


"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."


"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."


"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."


"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."


"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
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