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Posted on July 10, 2021July 10, 2021

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”—Bernard Baruch, American financier, 1870-1965

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

“One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”—Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French author, 1873-1954

Posted on December 28, 2020

“Few people know how to be old.”—François de La Rochefoucauld, French maximist, 1613-1680

Posted on June 16, 2020

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on March 28, 2017March 28, 2017

“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”—Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, 1879-1940

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