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Quote by Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. – Thomas Browne

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. – Chinese Proverb

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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. Thats what I do. Im like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. – Avril Lavigne

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