Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present time, laying the fault of his misery and discontent upon the world and the manners of men?
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- Essays, Charles Cotton translation, revised by William Carew Hazlitt (1877); Exact wording and attribution checked. Reflections on the experience and finitude of life.
- Essays, Charles Cotton translation, revised by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
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