“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Category: age
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: knowledge
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“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.”
— Polly Toynbee
Author: Polly Toynbee
Category: happiness
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