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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Age

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The speaker measures old age relative to their current age, implying that what counts as "old" shifts as they grow older. In other words, old age is not a fixed number but always lies beyond their present stage of life by about fifteen years.

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