“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.