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"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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"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."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."
Relationship
"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
Food
"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."
Practice
"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."
Trust
"A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet."
Relationship
"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."
Relationship
"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
Love
"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
Beauty
"Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her."
Man
"A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest."
Love
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