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"Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
— Gertrude Stein
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