I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
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About Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany was a 19th-century Irish anglo-irish writer and dramatist. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime, and his output consisted of hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, and essays; further works were published posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world