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«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
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Age,
Elderly,
Respect,
Testing
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a people, behaves, care for, child care, cult, cults, Cult of the, dictators, Easy to Love, fond, gold mine, helpless, incurable, incurables, mines, old gold, The Cult, The Dictators, tyrants
«At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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Elderly,
Sex
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elderly, gout, hits, maladies, malady, preoccupation, sharper
«A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.»
«Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.»
Author: Elvis Presley
(Actor, Singer)
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Elderly
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gradually, grave, something else, The Grave
«Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Death and dying,
Elderly,
Friends,
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, engaged, seventy
«Education is the best provision for old age.»
«A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.»
«As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.»
«An old man is twice a child.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Elderly
| Keywords:
old man, twice
«An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress»
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