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  • Bram Stoker Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Campbell Brown While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Burgess Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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