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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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