Quote by Thomas Carlyle
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men fr

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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Each moment of a happy lovers hour is worth an age of dull and common life. – Aphra Behn

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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I dont think my mother had that opportunity to change. – Jeanne Moreau

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No, but way before that, Ive been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual. – Christopher Walken

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Im very accepting with my age. Its like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when youve become comfortable in your skin. – Zoe Saldana

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