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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

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The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before ...more

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins