"I must confess, I was born at a very early age."
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"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."
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"At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!"
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"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake."
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"I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over."
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"I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing."
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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
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"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."
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"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
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"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them."
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"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."
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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
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"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
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"It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
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