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“Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?”

Age Past Saws Periods Prejudice Old Age Peculiar Present Time

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“You read the past in some old faces.”

Age Past Faces Old Age

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.”

Mean Age Past Grows Anxiety Old Age

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”

Age Past Letters Aging Old Age 30th Birthday

Author:Knut Hamsun