• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 34 reads

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• Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 5 votes · 55 reads

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• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 13 votes · 175 reads

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 29 reads

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• Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  

  Daniel Defoe

  AuthorBritish1660 · 17th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 55 reads

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 143 reads

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 158 reads

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• My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow?

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 179 reads

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 174 reads

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• No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 47 reads

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• No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.0 · 23 votes · 73 reads

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.6 · 28 votes · 82 reads

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 191 reads

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 112 reads

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 80 reads

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• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 76 reads

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• Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 195 reads

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• Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 65 reads

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 74 reads

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• Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 43 reads

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 118 reads

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 111 reads

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• Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 53 votes · 58 reads

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.6 · 24 votes · 167 reads

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• Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 7 votes · 88 reads

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 162 reads

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• Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 42 votes · 178 reads

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• Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 163 reads

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• Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 170 reads

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• Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 12 votes · 174 reads

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• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.4 · 54 votes · 88 reads

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• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 23 reads

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, a

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 42 reads

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• One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 26 votes · 47 reads

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• People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 104 reads

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 175 reads

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 104 reads

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• Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 111 reads

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• Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -from others. We do not accept it willingly.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 145 reads

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• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 64 reads

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• Talking is the disease of age.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 34 reads

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 187 reads

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• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 63 reads

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 80 reads

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.6 · 40 votes · 43 reads

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• The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.3 · 29 votes · 153 reads

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 162 reads

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• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 63 reads

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 160 reads

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• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 10 votes · 124 reads

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.5 · 47 votes · 120 reads

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• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  5.0 · 28 votes · 65 reads

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• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.3 · 55 votes · 10 reads

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• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 29 reads

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• The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 130 reads

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• The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 67 reads

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• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 77 reads

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• The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 125 reads

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• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 7 reads

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• The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 161 reads

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 47 reads

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• The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.9 · 7 votes · 30 reads

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• The worst old age is that of the mind.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 77 reads

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 113 reads

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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.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 186 reads

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• There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 144 reads

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• There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  5.0 · 44 votes · 60 reads

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• There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 39 votes · 27 reads

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• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 167 reads

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• Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  WriterAmerican1896 · 19th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 53 reads

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 91 reads

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 170 reads

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 23 reads

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 170 reads

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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 145 reads

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 179 reads

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• To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 160 reads

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