Thomas Carlyle - About age - 89260

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.“

-Thomas Carlyle

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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