Age quote by Pearl S. Buck

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"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

Old age Urgent

This quote is written / told by Pearl S. Buck between June 6, 1892 and March 6, 1973. She was a famous Novelist from USA, the quote is categorized under the topic Age. The author also have 42 other quotes.

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