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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his read more
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
