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And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No o...  
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and ca...  
Better Counsel comes overnight.  
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with intere...  
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always...  
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not tel...  
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my li...  
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is ...  
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.  
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is ...  
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and importa...  
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.  
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've und...  
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't ...   Age
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the se...  
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.  
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how t...  
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.  
What is a hero without love for mankind.  
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To prete...  
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political clima...