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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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