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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ↗

— Doris Day

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Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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