"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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