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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
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You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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