You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;-something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold in a rock has to do with the grass a thousand feet above it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;-something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold in a rock has to do with the grass a thousand feet above it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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