Advice in old age is foolish; ...

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey\'s end.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
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