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youth looks at its world and age looks through it youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
Author
Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
Travel Writer
Traveler
Writer
Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Luck
Age
Private
Action
Rule
Unsuited
Problem
Whose
Strenuous
Looks
Youth
Outlines
Must
Problems
Cosmic
World
Single
Harmony
Achieve
Busy

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Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
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