W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth