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Quote by Norman Douglas
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In my old age, Ill be in L.A. – David Hockney

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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. – George Burns

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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