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This week Schott’s Vocab is soliciting definitions of age.

Lord Cecil suggested: “Old age is the out-patients’ department of purgatory.”

Mark Twain is said to have stated: “Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Bernard Baruch claimed: “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

Billie Burke argued: “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”

Here are two of my own:

Age never surprises; it just sneaks up on you.

Age is what’s left when you’ve lost everything else.

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