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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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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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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"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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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."
Family

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."
Man

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."
Reading

"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
God

"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
Friendship

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."
People

"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end."
Life

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
Flowers

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
Action

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."
Life
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