#middle age

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ↗

— Dario Fo

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Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

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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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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

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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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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

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