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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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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – 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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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

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I think Im a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. Its not about being shameful, Im just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. – Kristen Stewart

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Confidence is something youre born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. – Hedy Lamarr

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. – Plautus

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