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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspiration, Men, Age
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Spring, Tree, Age
"The Last Leaf " l. 43 (1831)

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age, Youth, Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.205, Reprint Services Corporation

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