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The Renaissance3 quotes
You and I are past our dancing days. — William Shakespeare · 1597Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And, where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruisèd youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. — William Shakespeare · 1597If youth knew; if age could. — Henri Estienne · 1594Classical antiquity1 quote
The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCColonial America1 quote
Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones; the Difference is only in the Price. — Benjamin Franklin · 1752