Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
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- Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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- We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.