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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.Pearl S. Buck
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He that high growth on cedars did bestow, / Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 8106. Printed attribution: R. Southwell. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 28305. Printed attribution: Ecclus. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 265. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_265