"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Age, Youth

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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

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Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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George Orwell, British Author

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