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Medical science has oppressed us with a huge new burden of
longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold,
appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) in the Sunday Times, 7 January 1962
Submitted by Fred Charatan, retired geriatric physician, Florida
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