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Shakespeare quote, “my age is as a lusty window, frosty, but kindly”

Shakespeare knew… age was beautiful and calm, for the season quiet when the winds give over. Age is done with passions and discontent and strivings. …..

It wasn’t sad to be old, Jean told herself, for as the physical sight dims, the soul sees more clearly and the light from the world to come illumines the last dark bit of the way.

She was glad she lived among people who had the decency to go on, caring for each other, in spite of lines and wrinkles, comfortable couples, whose affection for each other was a shelter the time of storm, a shelter built, a common joys, of fireside, talks and councils in the dawn, cemented by tears shed overcommon sorrows..

“If only you hadn’t been a man, she said miserably, we might have been such friends.”

She is one of those splendid people who take the slings and arrows thrown at them by outrageous fortune and bury them deep in their hearts and go on, still able to laugh, still able to take an interest. Only, you mustn't speak to her of what she has lost. That would be too much."