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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
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