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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty su

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. – Felix Frankfurter

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