"I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven."
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"As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."
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"The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age."
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"Few know how to be old."
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"In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly."
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"The older a fool is, the worse he is."
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"I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40."
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"Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."
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"Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment."
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"Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago."
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"Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture."
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"After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now.""
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"If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration."
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"Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world."
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"Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us."
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"Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion."
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"In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages."
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"Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk."
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"Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge."
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"Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience."
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