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«There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.»
«The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.»
«The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.»
Author: Jean Renoir | Keywords: eighty
«The Church's Restoration / In eighteen-eighty-three / Has left for contemplation / Not what there used to be.»
«Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?»
«On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.»
«People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.»
«My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.»
«There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.»
«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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