We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. – Pearl S. Buck

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An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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