A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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