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  • "Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "The most dangerous weakness of old people who have been amiable is to forget they are no longer so."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "As we grow old we become more foolish and more wise."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth."
    By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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  • "I feel I am growing old for want of somebody to tell me that I am looking as young as ever. Charming falsehood! There is a vast deal of vital air loving words."
    By: Walter Savage Landor
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  • "We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. [Fr., L'on espere de vieillir, et l'on craint la vieillesse; l'on aime la vie et l'on fuit la mort.]"
    By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XI)
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  • "We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]"
    By: Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XI)
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  • "Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight."
    By: Louis Kossuth
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  • "Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him."
    By: Charles Kingsley
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  • "The evening of life brings with it its lamps."
    By: Joseph Joubert
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  • "Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen."
    By: Joseph Joubert
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  • "Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom."
    By: Joseph Joubert
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  • "Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace."
    By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 308)
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  • "There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse."
    By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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