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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ― John Glenn

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That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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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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So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.- Douglas Adams

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