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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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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine 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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"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
Family

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
Food

"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
Religion

"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."
Wealth

"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
Money

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
Death

"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
Soul

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
History

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Influence

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
Darkness
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