"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
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"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."
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"Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?"
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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."
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"Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy."
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"I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise."
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"Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems."
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."
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"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."
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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
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"Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them."
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"You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you."
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"It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present."
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"Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
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"As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved."
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"It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another."
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"Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?"
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"Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable."
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"This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo."
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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
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