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Age Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
- To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
- A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.
- Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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