#advanced age

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. ↗

— John Sexton

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My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. ↗

— Frank McCourt

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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol. ↗

— John Forsythe

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