W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Time
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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