THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Virtuous Age. Some veiy improper persons have advanced a theory that people are either young and innocent or old and virtuous. So that proves that there are three periods in life. The first is when we are very young, and we think of the indiscreet things we were able to do—that is the age of innocence. The second is when we are older, and we are able to do the things wo thought of when we were young. The third is when we are old, and we are looking on the tilings that we were able to do when younger, and regret our inability to recommence them. That is the age of virtue. It is said that virtue like the owl. dwells in ruins. It is about that period that old men give good advice, when they are no longer able to set a had example. —P. F. Murphy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1925, Page 2
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154THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1925, Page 2
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