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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
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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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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"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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"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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"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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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
Social

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Reading

"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."
Food

"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
Age

"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
Art

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
Travel

"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
Friendship

"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."
History

"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
Life
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