"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."
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"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."
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"No love is greater than that of a father for His son."
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"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
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"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
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"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
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"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get."
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"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
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"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working."
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"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
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"The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new."
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"Those whom the gods love grow young."
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"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
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