Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 19 |
| AUTHOR: | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892–1973) |
| QUOTATION: | Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Aged |