THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Some satirises have complained of life inasmuch as ail the pleasures belong to the fore part ot it, and we must see them dwindle till wo arj left, it may be, with the miseries of a decrepit old age. To mc it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season. . . Autumn is.the. mellower season, ar.d what wo lose iv flowers we more ihan gain in iruits. Fontenelle, at the age of 00 being asked what was the happiest .time of his life, said he did not know that he had ever been much happier than he then was, but that, perhaps, his best years had been those when he was between 55 and 75 and Dr. Johnson placed -he pleasvres of old age far higher than those of youth. True, in old age we live under the shadow of Death, which, like a sword of Damocles, may descend at any moment, but we hove so long fonnd life to be an affair of being rather frightened than hurt that we have become like the people !»™ under Vesuvius, and chance it without much
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 11
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