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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fres

Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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Old age begins at forty-six years, according to the common opinion. – Cicero/Holmes

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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. – Russell Baker

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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker

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