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"give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes ["Old men are boys again" (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux ["Few know how to be old" (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. "Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors" (Latin)]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks