In all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependence in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house.


Dorothy Dix — Her Book: Every-Day Help for Every-Day People (1926)


In all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependence in their old age, and find...

In all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependence in their old age, and find...

In all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependence in their old age, and find...

In all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependence in their old age, and find...