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Eleanor Roosevelt

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear a

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt is saying that middle age is often the happiest time because the intense emotions of youth have settled down, and the physical weaknesses of old age have not yet started. She compares this to how shadows are biggest in the early morning and late evening but nearly vanish when the sun is high, symbolizing a clear, balanced period in life.

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