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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
Adulthood
Nicholson Baker

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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Adulthood
Simone De Beauvoir

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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
Adultery
Lord Byron

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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
Lust
Jimmy Carter

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Children
Alexander Chase

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Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
Divorce
French Proverb

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Life and Living
Henry Giles

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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
Fertility
Germaine Greer

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Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.
Autobiography
John Grigg

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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Boys
John B. S. Haldane

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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Adultery
W. Somerset Maugham

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Adultery
H. L. Mencken

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Learning
Sydney Joseph Perelman

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To be adult is to be alone.
Adulthood
Jean Rostand

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Adults are obsolete children.
Children
Dr. Seuss

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Life and Living
Socrates

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Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?
Smile
Source Unknown

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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Punishment
Gore Vidal

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Marriage
Peter De Vries

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun