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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville
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Death
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Life
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
Rose Kennedy
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Age
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Full
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I Am
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Age
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Business
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Hope
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
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Age
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Experience
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Life
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
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Age
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Childhood
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Life
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles
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Age
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Enemy
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Life
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
William Osler
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Age
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Life
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Periods
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
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Age
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Happy
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Life
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi
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Earth
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Life
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Returns
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron
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Age
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Alone
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Earth
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