King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.
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Second childhood
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advanced ageadvanced yearsage of retirementan incurable diseaseanilitycaducitychildishnessdebilitydecline
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decline of lifedeclining yearsdecrepitudedotagedotardismeldelderlinessfeeblenessgreen old agehale old agehoary ageinfirm old age
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infirmityinfirmity of agelongevityold ageoldnesspensionable agericketinessripe old agesenectitudesenile debilitysenile dementiasenile psychosissenile weaknesssenilismsenilitysenior citizenshipsuperannuationthe downward slopethe golden yearsvale of years
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white hairs
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"You think I'm in my second childhood, I know!" croaked the old woman.
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Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime."
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For myself, although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in intellect, and seemed to be brought to a species of second childhood, generally simpering in their expressions, with idiotic smiles, and uttering the most absurd platitudes.
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