“The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.”
Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer
Bad News, Chapter 12
“But when an old man dances,
His locks with age are grey.
But he's a child in mind.”
— Anacreon
Odes, XXXIX. (XXXVII), 3.
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