“Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”
Jack London book The Wit of Porportuk
"The Wit of Porportuk" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, book The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
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“A happy youth, and their old age
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William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
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