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Quote by Jean Paul
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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – 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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul

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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. Youre young enough to get away with things, but youre old enough, too. – Liv Tyler

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Josh Billings

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Its amazing how much you can absorb on a film set. – Mia Wasikowska

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