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Quote by Edith Wharton
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the uni

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. – Edith Wharton

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton

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By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. – Author Unknown

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. – Victor Hugo

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We try to achieve beauty by covering up all traces of age and end up looking like we tried to achieve youth by covering up all traces of beauty. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. – Abdul Kalam

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One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. – Charles de Lint

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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. – J. G. Ballard

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Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. – Isaac Asimov

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