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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." »William Butler Yeats
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement." »Florida Scott-Maxwell
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"The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old." »Manu
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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these." »George Washington Carver
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"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged." »Virginia
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"There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially." »Confucius
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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." »George Washington Carver
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"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." »George Washington Carver
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone
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"Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*" »Bhartrihari
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"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." »Kim Hubbard
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