Quote by Carl Sandburg
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. – Carl Sandburg

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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. – Carl Sandburg

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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. – Carl Sandburg

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Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked. – Lawrence Durrell

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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? – Dennis Prager

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My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age. – Anna Kendrick

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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

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