"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
-Helen Hayes
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"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.“
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."
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"When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
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"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
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"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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