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8497. TRANQUILLITY, Old age and.—

Tranquillity is the old man's milk. I go to
enjoy it in a few days, and to exchange the roar
and tumult of bulls and bears, for the prattle of
my grandchildren and senile rest.—
To Edward Rutledge. Washington ed. iv, 191. Ford ed., vii, 155.
(Pa., 17971797)gt;