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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that ag

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. – H.L. Mencken

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&ampB pretty well, and its all a part of what we consider to be black music. There is a natural synergy between the three. – John Legend

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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. – James Truslow Adams

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We tend to think of age only in time, but I dont think it has much to do with time at all theres a whole load of other things. Ive met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young. – Roger Daltrey

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If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie? – Author Unknown

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As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace. – Dan Lipinski

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