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" Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. "

James Anthony Froude

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" Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. "

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" Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. "

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" From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. "

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" Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. "

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" No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. "

" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "

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" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

" I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict. "

" A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare. "

" I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. "

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" Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. "

" Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. "

" A man growing old becomes a child again. "

" I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. "

" Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. "

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" Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. "

" I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends. "

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" It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. "

" What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. "

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" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. "

James Anthony Froude