"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.“


-Dorothy Thompson

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

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