He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. (Sydney Smith)

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.

Sydney Smith

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