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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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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

by Knut Hamsun Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

by Cato The Elder Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

by Oliver Herford Found in: Age Quotes,
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

by Bennett Cerf Found in: Age Quotes,
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

by William Shakespeare Found in: Age Quotes,
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

by George Eliot Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

by Leon Trotsky Found in: Age Quotes,
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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 comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Age Quotes,
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