Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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Im not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldnt think my schedule looked so busy. – Garrison Keillor

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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: I couldve been Bond. Buy me a drink. Thats the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: I was Bond. Now buy me a drink. – Daniel Craig

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. – Warren Beatty

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When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and theyre not going to be, at the end, theyre not going to be close. – Mike Singletary

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