"To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory."
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"What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal."
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"That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal."
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"But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?"
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"Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave."
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"In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality."
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"Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before."
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"In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money."
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"If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!"
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"I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142."
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"By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved."
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"There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer."
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"It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time."
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"To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well."
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"Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?"
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"Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not."
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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch."
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"But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie)."
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress."
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