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Quotes › Authors › O › Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. › To be seventy years young is sometimes far more ch
  • To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)
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