oldhood = 'old age'

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> makes it sound undesirable just to
> discourage others

I was first warned against growing old back in 1957, when an elderly
gent took me aside and advised,

"Son, don't get old."

But damned if *I* was discouraged! I went ahead and *got* old. No one
tell *me* what to do! Here of late, though, I've come to feel that the
old guy and Matthew Arnold were correct.

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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