<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I’m an Older Man Than You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN you’ve managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sort<br>And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short,<br>Do not fret and swear and worry, make the tailor see you through—<br>I have been through many new suits, I’m an older man than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When your girl is interfering with your appetite and work,<br>With your sleep and time and reason till the jealous demons lurk;<br>When your girl is playing with you, leave her for a week or two:<br>If in vain, then quit for ever!—I’m an older man than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When your wife deceives or leaves you for a “blackguard”, “brute”, and “sot”,<br>And when not a soul believes you when you say that you were not;<br>Do not rave or brood and weaken, and the years will prove you true,<br>Let your own self be the beacon!—I’m an older man than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not take a silly mistress in your vanity accursed,<br>And a second wife (or husband) but reminds you of the first;<br>Banish mutual friends, and pity (kill or cure relations, too),<br>Shun false “reconciliation”—I’m an older man than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be the cause however worthy, and your case however strong,<br>Be your wrong however cruel, drink will put you in the wrong.<br>Drink will neutralize and murder all the good that time can do<br>(Though our birthdays come together, I’m an older man than you).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for ever and for ever, over seas and through the lands,<br>Go the hand laid on the shoulder and the silent grip of hands<br>With a world of human feeling—men who know and men who knew:<br>Clear your soul of pessimism—I’m an older man than you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408642" data-title="I’m an Older Man Than You de Henry Lawson" data-description="WHEN you’ve managed with the tailor for a rig-out of a sort And you find the coat or trousers are an inch or so too short, Do not fret and swear and worry, make the tailor see you through— I have been through many new suits, I’m an older man..."></div> </div> </div>

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