“For Nature is a cunning nurse. She gives us lollipops all the way, and when the lollipop of hope and the lollipop of achievement are done, she gently inserts in our toothless gums the lollipop of remembrance. And with that pleasant vanity we are soothed to sleep.”

— Alfred George Gardiner

From "The Vanity of Old Age", Windfalls (1920)

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British journalist and writer 1865–1946

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