Age Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes,
Mignon McLaughlin,
Mark Twain
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| There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. |
| - Franklin P. Adams |
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| We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. |
| - Margaret Atwood |
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| Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. |
| - Brigitte Bardot |
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| Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. |
| - John Barrymore |
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| Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. |
| - Dan Bennett |
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| I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. |
| - Bernard Berenson |
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| Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. |
| - Robert Browning |
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| It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. |
| - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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| You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. |
| - George Burns |
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| Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. |
| - Truman Capote |
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| Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you |
| - Bennett Cerf |
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| Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. |
| - Maurice Chevalier |
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| An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. |
| - Agatha Christie |
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| We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. |
| - Frank A. Clark |
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| Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. |
| - Harold Coffin |
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| The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. |
| - John Churton Collins |
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| Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. |
| - Bill Cosby |
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| When you become senile, you won't know it. |
| - Bill Cosby |
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| Old age ain't no place for sissies. |
| - Bette Davis |
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| You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. |
| - Ellen DeGeneres |
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| Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. |
| - Charles Dickens |
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| Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. |
| - Charles Dickens |
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| We turn not older with years, but newer every day. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. |
| - Phyllis Diller |
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| I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| The years teach much which the days never knew. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. |
| - Sam Ewing |
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| At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? |
| - Jules Feiffer |
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| Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. |
| - Jim Fiebig |
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| What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. |
| - John Fischer |
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| Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." |
| - David Grayson |
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| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. |
| - Graham Greene |
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| From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Jr. Holmes |
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| A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. |
| - Bob Hope |
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| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. |
| - Charles Lamb |
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| The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. |
| - Doug Larson |
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| You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. |
| - Timothy Leary |
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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 body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. |
| - Doris Lessing |
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| Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. |
| - Douglas MacArthur |
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| You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. |
| - Douglas MacArthur |
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| The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. |
| - Marya Mannes |
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| Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. |
| - Don Marquis |
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| Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. |
| - André Maurois |
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| Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. |
| - John Mortimer |
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| I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. |
| - Jawaharlal Nehru |
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| The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. |
| - Jack Nicklaus |
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| How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? |
| - Satchel Paige |
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| You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. |
| - Arnold Palmer |
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| It takes a long time to become young. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. |
| - George Dennison Prentice |
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| There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. |
| - J.B. Priestley |
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| Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. |
| - Robert Quillen |
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| When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. |
| - Jean Rostand |
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| Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. |
| - T.A. Sachs |
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| A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. |
| - Vin Scully |
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| In a dream you are never eighty. |
| - Anne Sexton |
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| Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The trick is growing up without growing old. |
| - Casey Stengel |
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| Age is a high price to pay for maturity. |
| - Tom Stoppard |
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| Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. |
| - Jonathan Swift |
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| When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. |
| - Jonathan Swift |
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| None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. |
| - Bill Vaughan |
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| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. |
| - Voltaire |
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| True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. |
| - William Allen White |
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| The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. |
| - Tom Wilson |
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| There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. |
| - P.G. Wodehouse |
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| Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. |
| - Jennifer Yane |
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| Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. |
| - Edward Young |
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