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    The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

by Francois Voltaire Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

by Jeanne Moreau Found in: Age Quotes,
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Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.

by James M. Barrie Found in: Age Quotes,
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a read more

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

by Anatole France Found in: Age Quotes,
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.

by Bernard Baruch Found in: Age Quotes,
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

by Victor Hugo Found in: Age Quotes,
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

by H. L. Mencken Found in: Age Quotes, Trust Quotes,
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

by J. P. Senn Found in: Age Quotes,
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

by Arnold Palmer Found in: Age Quotes,
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