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We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
Jean de la Bruyere
"Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.
1803
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