I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.” He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. ― Rick Riordan

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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. ― John Scalzi

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Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. — John Soforic

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And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. ― Dylan Thomas

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Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. ― Lynsay Sands

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For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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Time and tide wait for no man.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ― William Shakespeare

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