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    Weak withering age no rigid law forbids.
    With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,
    The sapless habit daily to bedew,
    And give the hesitating wheels of life
    Gliblier to play.

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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 read more

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.

by Lydia M. Child Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

by Margaret Mead Found in: Age Quotes,
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

by Robert Louis Stevenson Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

by Diana Cooper 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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

by William James Found in: Age Quotes,
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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

by Edward Found in: Age Quotes,
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Age Quotes,
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

by Isaac Bickerstaff Found in: Age Quotes,
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