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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
Life
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
Health
"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
Man
"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."
Joy
"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
Courage
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
Love
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
Dogs
"You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late."
Morality
"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."
Heart
"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
Leadership
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