Mark twain quotes on aging
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- Letter to William Dean Howells, 22 August 1887
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead.
Mark twain quotes on aging
It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.
- Letter to San Francisco Alta California, 19 May 1867
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments -- notably those of the violin -- but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
- Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Kings clothe a favorite with honors & dignities for a brief time, then cast him forth naked & ashamed.
This imitates Nature, who flatters us with youth, to insult us with age.
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