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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

Other quotes by Carl Sandburg

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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Anger
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. – Carl Sandburg

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Time
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. – Carl Sandburg

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Age

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

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Age

Age is something that doesnt matter, unless you are a cheese. – Luis Bunuel

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Age

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. – David Ogilvy

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Age

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage

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After all, what is your hosts purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself if that were their sole purpose, theyd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. – P. J. ORourke

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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