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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
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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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"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
Dream
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
Age
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
Evil
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
Work
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
Man
"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
Business
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
Luck
"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
Patience
"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."
Dignity
"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
Appreciation
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