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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea: Author Unknown
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.: Andre Bernard Buruch
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.: Dr. Thomas Arnold
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

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