"The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them."

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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

— Agnes Repplier