"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't…" — Gustave Flaubert

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. — Francis Bacon
• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,… — Joseph Addison
• God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable… — Diablo Cody
• We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest… — Yasser Arafat
• Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. — Elizabeth I
• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen
• Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! — Charlotte Mary Yonge
• No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people… — Jonathan Swift
• To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and… — Mickey Rooney
• Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job… — Shailender Singh
• Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is… — Maximilian Kolbe

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