"A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife" — Edgar Watson Howe

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

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