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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen

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Where id was, there shall ego be. – Sigmund Freud

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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. – Haniel Long

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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and Ill show you a man who cant get his pants on. – Joe E. Lewis

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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. – Robert S. Hillyer

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