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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows wha

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Age carries all things away, even the mind. – Virgil

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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. – Aldous Huxley

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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. – Franklin Adams

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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