"In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age."
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"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age"
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
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"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
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"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold."
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"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."
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"Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves."
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"The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong."
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"Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy."
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"There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation."
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"Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age."
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"Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley."
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"I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial."
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"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."
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"Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of."
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"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
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"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
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"I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff."
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