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I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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!
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings read more
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
