Those trains will run over their tails, if they can, Snorting and sporting like porpoises. Flee The burly, the whirligig wheels of the train, As round as the world and as large again.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Mariner Man'.

There are compensations for growing older.One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

-Skinner, Cornelia Otis
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