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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.
ATTRIBUTION: PEARL S. BUCK, My Several Worlds, p. 337 (1954).
SUBJECTS: Aged