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“For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.”
“My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves”
“Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.”
“Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.”
“I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.”