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  • Benjamin Jowett I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me (p. 250).
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    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Voltaire I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Euripides I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I love to both give and receive very old books.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Victor Hugo I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • David Malouf I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
    Johnno (2015) 107
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Robert Frost I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Billie Holiday I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Richard Dawkins I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. E. Housman I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.
    A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 75 (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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