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elegant pleasure to the mind; and to such who are so unfortunate as not to be able to look back on youth with satisfaction, they may give themselves no little consolation that they are under no temptation to repeat their follies, and that they are at present despise them. ,, [[underline]] He that would be long an old man, must ,, begin early to be one [[/underline]] :, It is too late to resign a thing after a man is robbed of it; therefore it is necessary that before the arrival of age we bid [[foreign: French]] adieu [[/foreign]] to the pursuits of youth, otherwise sensual habits will live in our imaginations when our limbs cannot be subservient to them. The fond humour of appearing on the gay and fashionable world, and being applauded for trivial excellencies, is what makes youth have age in contempt, and makes age resign with so ill a grace the qualifications of youth: Age, in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. If to be saluted, attended, and consulted with deference, are instances of pleasure, they are such as never fail a virtuous old age. In the enumeration of the imperfections and advantages of the younger and later years of man, they are so near in their condition, that methinks, it should be incredible we see so little commerce of kindness between them. If we
