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"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
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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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"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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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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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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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
People
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
Virtue
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life
"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Truth
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Comedy
"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
Art
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Comedy
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