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For questions related to a fairly well-known sentence or phrase that is widely understood to have originated in a publicly available text or speech, in many cases attributed to a famous person (or multiple famous people). See also the "quotations" tag.

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Meaning of the Oscar Wilde quote about the "tragedy of old age"

Wilde's referring, firstly, to the fact that we almost always feel younger than we are and than we look, past middle age at least. It's a realization that hits when, for example, we catch sight of som …
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