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• Middle age is youth without it's levity. And old age without decay. -- Daniel Defoe
• In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning
  and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise....
• It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a commodity.
  Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of art exist simultaneously in two "economies," a market economy and a gift economy....
• Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man.
  Art is the work of man under the guidance and the inspiration of a mightier power....
• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo
• What is learned in youth is understood in age.
• Middle age: When your age starts to show at your middle.
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