Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.Carolyn Wells
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day.
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We should live and learn but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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