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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
G. H. Hardy
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G. H. Hardy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1877
Born: February 7
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
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... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.
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