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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | James Thurber |

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Edgar Watson Howe |