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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. - Hervey Allen She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. - Anita Brookner The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. - Daniel Defoe One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year old men more. - Colleen McCullough After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. - Bette Midler Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. - Christopher Darlington Morley In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made. - Kathleen Norris (nee Kathleen Thompson and wife of C.G. Norris) We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. - Jules Renard
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