"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down."

Life, Age, Strength, Decline

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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down."

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"For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!"

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