"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."

Aging, Comfort, Wisdom, Community

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"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."

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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."

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Aging, Joy, Limitation, Mindset

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

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