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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. – Jean Paul

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul

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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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I think its quite extraordinary that people cast me as if Im Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. – Colin Firth

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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. – John Henrik Clarke

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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus

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