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An old man once said, "When I was young I was poor; when old I became rich; but in each condition I found disappointment. When the faculties of enjoyment were, I had not the means; when the means came, the faculties were gone."

— Valérie de Gasparin Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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