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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
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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."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"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."
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream."
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
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