Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
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- Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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