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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. – Felix Frankfurter

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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter

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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. – Mason Cooley

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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard Baruch

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We tried not to age, but time had its rage. – Pete Townshend

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