“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“[Old age] never comes alone.”
— Menander
Monosticha http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php (491).
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