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The document discusses views on aging and growing old. It states that while old age is difficult for some, it can also be a happy time of harvest for those who remain wise and optimistic. It notes that continuing to be amazed can delay growing old, and that how one responds between the ages of 16 to 25 shapes their entire life. Finally, it suggests that it is through growing old that one learns to stay young, and the one benefit of aging is that one is always younger than they will ever be again.
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- 2. Old age is winter, alas, for many people, but for those who are wise and optimistic, it is the happy and fruitful time of harvest.
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- 4. So long as one continues to be amazed, one can delay growing old.
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- 6. The entire life of a human being depends upon ￣yes￣ and ＾no￣ uttered two or three times between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.
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- 8. Old age arrives suddenly, as does the snow. One morning, on awakening, one realizes that everything is white.
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- 10. It is by growing old that one learns to remain young.
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- 12. If someone declares that he is able to do everything at sixty that he was able to do at twenty, then he was not doing very much when he was twenty.
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- 14. Old age embellishes everything. It has the effect of the setting sun on the beautiful twilights of autumn.
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- 16. As one grows old, one generally rids himself of his shortcomings because they no longer serve any useful purpose.
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- 18. There are four great periods in the life of a man; the one where he believe in Santa Claus, the one where he no longer believes in Santa Claus, the one where he is Santa Claus, and finally the one where he looks more and more like Santa Claus.
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- 20. The good side of this, as old as one might be, is that one is always younger than he will ever be.
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- 22. The person who considers himself too old to learn something has probably always been that way .
- 23. Have a nice day