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Letter "A" » Age
«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
| About:
Age,
Elderly,
Respect,
Testing
| Keywords:
a people, behaves, care for, child care, cult, cults, Cult of the, dictators, Easy to Love, fond, gold mine, helpless, incurable, incurables, mines, old gold, The Cult, The Dictators, tyrants
«A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.»
«Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden»
«By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth»
Author: Marya Mannes
(Writer)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
age of, fifties, fifty, over fifty, The Age, youth
«Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.»
«A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.»
«But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves»
«A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Age,
Poetry
| Keywords:
overgrown, thirty, Thirty Years
«Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.»
«A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age»
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