My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

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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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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. ― Cassandra Clare

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Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. ― Janet Evanovich

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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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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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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