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Quote by Edmund Burke
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, a

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. – Paul Cezanne

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I think you cant really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether its New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You cant escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. – Jack White

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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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