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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Age, Aging, Truth, Childhood, Life

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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

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Sophocles, Greek Poet

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