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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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Personal Development
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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Personal Development
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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Personal Development
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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Personal Development
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
Religion
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind
"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Mistake
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."
Beauty
"Take the tone of the company you are in."
Adaptation
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time
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