Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-01), “Over the Teacups,” No. 2,
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65
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