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Forty-five is the age of recklessness for many men, as if in defiance of the decay and death waiting with open arms in the sinister valley at the bottom of the inevitable hill. – Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

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The diseases of old age are the diseases of children grown old. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain [Also, “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had

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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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