Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
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A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling...
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book.
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