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"But the truth is, that when a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me."
"I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one."
"The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men."
"Education is the best provision for old age."
"The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age."
"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages."
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
"How young can you die of old age?"
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years."
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