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Quote by Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison

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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. – Virginia Woolf

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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Author Unknown

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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. – Mario Andretti

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I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. – Rupert Everett

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