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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Age

"Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?"

Men Age Half
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Age

"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him."

Men World Age
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Age

"What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed."

Heart Age Blood
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Vanilla Ice Rapper
Age

"I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it."

Real Age Groups
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Age

"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."

Age Time Twenties
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Saul Bellow Novelist
Age

"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses."

Thinking Age Clever
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Scott Adams Cartoonist
Age

"Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing."

Song Age Hip Hop
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Age

"In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."

Age Opinion Argument
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Age

"Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it."

Eye Age Mirrors
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