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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.