“We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him.”

—  Don Marquis

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Context: We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want... some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.

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