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- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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- Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.