"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time."
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"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Time is making fools of us again."
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"If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?"
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"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
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"By following this simple path, you become extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space by realizing the subtle truth of the universe."
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"Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey."
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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."
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"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
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"The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life."
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"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
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"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."
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"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
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"Every second is of infinite value."
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"And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?"
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