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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of ones faculti

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of ones faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of ones memories. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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