A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. 7, “Explicit Allegoria Senectutis” (1858)

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