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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

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"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. 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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"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."

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"When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

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"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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