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“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”

Men Age Young Wealth Poverty Learning Comfort Standing Riches Old Age Young Man Serving Ornaments

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.”

Age Hours Brain Poverty Loneliness Healthy Despair Projects Optimism Obstacles Enormous Old Age Enlightened Enlightening New Projects

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”

Want Age Justice Moral Poverty Obligation Superiors Old Age Providing Helpless Infancy Extravagance Moral Obligation

Book:THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including

Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including