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"I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
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"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
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"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
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"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
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"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."
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"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
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"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
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"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
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"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Politics
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion
"Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness
"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say."
Emotion
"This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions."
Politics
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Future
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
Integrity
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