"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay" — Daniel Defoe

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

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