Don Marquis - About age - 89613

"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.“

-Don Marquis

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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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