"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection."
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"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."
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"The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other."
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"It takes a long time to become young."
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
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"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."
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"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."
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"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."
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"My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it."
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"Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you."
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"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
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"Youth has no age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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