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Victor Hugo

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of 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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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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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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist
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"I am he who cometh out of the depths. My lords, you are great and rich. There lies your danger. You profit by the night; but beware! The dawn is all-powerful. You cannot prevail over it. It is coming. Nay! it is come. Within it is the day-spring of irresistible light. And who shall hinder that sling from hurling the sun into the sky. The sun I speak of is Right. You are Privilege. Tremble!"
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