When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder C…

W. Somerset Maugham
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself

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