#old age

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#always #am #i #i am #man

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#happiest #life #old #old age #our

Old age is a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#old #old age #shipwreck