"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
-Francis Bacon
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"Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.“
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
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"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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