Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps....

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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