"Although I am an old man, night..." - Quote by Charles Dickens
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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“I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.”
More on Age
“With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.”
“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”
“The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.”
More on Habits
“Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.”
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”