"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."

Age, Contracting

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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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

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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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"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."

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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."

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"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."

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"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."

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