It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – J.R.R. Tolkien

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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. – Kate Morton

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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. ― Marcus Aurelius

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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. -Diogenes

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You should always be aware that your head creates your world.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

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