"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."
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"The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth."
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"But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide."
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"Age is nothing; waking up is everything."
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"Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?"
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"In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body."
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"... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother."
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"Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth."
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"At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks."
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"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
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"The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas."
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"People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age."
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"[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."
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"So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee."
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"It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing."
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"I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."
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"When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity."
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"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
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