Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule.

Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule.

Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule.

Old men who preserve the desires of youth lose in consideration what they gain in ridicule.