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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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"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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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Happiness

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
Danger

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
Nothing

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Religion

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
Wealth

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."
People
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