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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully...more

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or givin...more

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You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.

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The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to th...more

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.