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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20. – Liam Neeson

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. – Clarence Day

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930

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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. – Barry Lopez

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Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little off the beaten trail, but cool area. – Todd English

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[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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