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How many of the decisions you make each day are because you want to do something, and how many are to Scot’s the consequences of not doing it?

Them and us

2/2 “They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth, but their age as well.’

“They have wrinkles, but no wisdom. I took them to war before they could do any of those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. 1/2

“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.”

“Old men like Marshal Pétain may run the country, but the young people will lead the way.”

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