“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
“I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.”
On turning 70 in Journals 1939-83 (1986), as quoted by R Z Sheppard in TIMEmagazine (20 January 1986)
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