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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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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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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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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life
"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."
Age
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
Humor
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Life
"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
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
Help
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Wisdom
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
Ambition
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
Old
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