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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Victor Hugo Quotes to Explore

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas....
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do....
A war between Europeans is a civil war....
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime....
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human....
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters....
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man....
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it....
To love another person is to see the face of God....
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide....

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken Engl...
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?...
I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age....
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked....
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age....
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age....
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections....
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for ...
Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked ins...
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me....