“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
“One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.”
A Gift of Joy (with Lewis Funke, 1965), p. 11
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