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  • "For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them."
    By: William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
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  • "Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "You see me here,--a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both!"
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "When, the age is in, the wit is out."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "These old fellows have Their ingratitude in them hereditary; Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows; 'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind, And nature, as it grows toward earth, Is fashion'd for the journey-dull and heavy."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Nor age so eat up my invention."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Mellowed by the stealing hours of time."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands; Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "His cheek the map of days outworn."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "At your age, The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment."
    By: William Shakespeare
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