Age Specific Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:

“Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
—William Dean Howells (1837–1920)