"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"A man growing old becomes a child again."
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"There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness.""
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"Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time."
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"Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel."
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"Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent."
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"Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times."
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"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur"
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"Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA."
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"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
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"Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out."
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"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."
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"Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it."
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"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."
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"When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me."
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"When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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"... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself."
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"I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking."
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"Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said."
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