Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Old age is no place for sissies.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
