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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new read more
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.
