Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.Gerald Brenan
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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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