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This quote reads as a quiet reversal of expectations about age. It suggests that later life can bring more lightness and hope than middle age, because pressure eases and perspective widens. At a birthday gathering, or for someone feeling worn down in their forties, it lands as permission to see older age not as decline, but as a freer state.
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Originally said in English.
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About Oliver Wendell Holmes
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