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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the read more

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.

by Helen Rowland Found in: Age Quotes,
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your read more

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

by Walter Scott Found in: Age Quotes,
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Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of read more

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.

by Mark Twain Found in: Age Quotes,
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In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.

by Josh Billings Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

by Margaret Willour 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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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson Found in: Age Quotes,
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