"Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people."
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"The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life."
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"For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering."
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"O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy."
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"Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust."
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"As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value"
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"No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year."
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"Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches."
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"That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity."
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"Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age."
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"I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst."
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"The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work."
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"For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so."
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"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."
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"Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness."
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"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."
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"You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have."
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"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same."
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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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