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

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

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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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."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."

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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

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"Great souls suffer in silence."

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"I am better than my reputation."

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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."

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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."

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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."

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