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Bernard Baruch

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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Bernard Baruch means that he views old age as something that is always beyond his current age by fifteen years, so it moves forward as he gets older. This shows that he doesn’t see himself as old now, but rather thinks of old age as a future stage still ahead of him.

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