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John Burroughs

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

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John Burroughs means that his idea of being old is always a bit beyond his current age, as if old age is a moving target that stays ahead of him by ten years. This shows how people often see old age as something distant rather than something that applies to themselves right now.

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