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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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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."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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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."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Knowledge
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Age
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Humor
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
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