Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
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- Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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- Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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