A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
“The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” Atlantic Monthly (1858-05)
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Collected in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. _ (1858)

 
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