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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
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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.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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