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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age
Old foxes want no tutors
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain
Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth
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