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Show Approaching the End. Cicero In his dialogue entitled "De Senectute" makes one of his Interlocutors Interloc-utors say that all men wish to attain old age and yet complain of the fact when they have attained It. He adds that one of the grievances of the old Is that age steals over them more rap-Idly rap-Idly than they expected. It is pointed out that we cannot prevent time from passing, and that even if we lived j eight hundred instead of1 eighty years j the past time, however long, cannot i when It has flown away be able to i "soothe with any consolation for an j old age of folly." ' |