Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
Tale of Genji
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
Tale of Genji
From *The Tale of Genji*, a stark and somewhat humorous observation on aging and its effects.
c. 1000-1012 CE
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