Mark Twain Quotes About Aging
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
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