What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. (W. Somerset Maugham)

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

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