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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
 
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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
 
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Horace Rumpole:
There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.
 
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With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
 
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First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.
 
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How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!
 
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
 
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
 
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
 
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The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
 
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
 
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
 
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