Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

 

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
--
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We know how allergic you are to candor and truth...For fifteen years now we have obeyed you. What have we done, during this time, to be useful and agreeable to you? We have sung, danced, animated, in short, we have been subjected to all sorts of humiliation, all forms of subjugation which even foreign colonization never made us suffer...
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