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I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it. – Henry Valentine Miller (1891–1980), “On Turning Eighty”

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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole

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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, theres always the town gossip – Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household? So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. – Garrett Hedlund

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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff. – Ben Barnes

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