"She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy……" — Doris Lessing

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• Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
• Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
• When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
• I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
• I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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