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To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude . . . the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Source: The View in Winter, 1979.
-- Ronald Blythe, (Jan 0 1922-____), English writer, editor; He is best known in his native England for his Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), a portrait of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s.

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