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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

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We all have souls of different ages

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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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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. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

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There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

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