Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the lon

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana

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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. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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