When an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
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An elder's death takes with it a lifetime of irreplaceable knowledge.
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A 92-year-old man, petite, well-poised and proud man who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with his hair f…
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Now there is something normal that happens. There can be an initial shock period where it's just what has happened is so…
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Hope is the ruddy morning of joy, ever betokening a fair day. Experience is the risen sun, which shows us the perils of …
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Truth which is merely told is quick to be forgotten; truth which is discovered lasts a lifetime.
— William Barclay
Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, “Fred, how as the memory cl…
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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
— George Eliot
