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«We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.»
«Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.»
«Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas»
«Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.»
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
«The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.»
«The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.»
«Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.»
«Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards»
«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.»

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