“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
— Washington Irving, book Bracebridge Hall
Bracebridge Hall. Bachelors (1822).
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