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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. – Johnny Ball

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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. – Sting

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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor. – Colin Firth

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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. – Heinrich Mann

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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