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Old Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing…
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though…
- Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
- Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and…
- There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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