To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
