Later Life
In April 1974, at age 79, she test-drove a Ford Capri Ghia at 110 mph (176 km/h) at Thruxton circuit. At age 81, after a brief refresher course in flying, she "looped the loop" in a De Havilland Chipmunk. Mildred Bruce died in 1990, at age 94. She was survived by her son, Anthony Easter-Bruce (1920-1997) and one grandson, Michael Easter-Bruce (1952 - ).
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“Most vices ... demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful—if strenuously led—as Christian’s in The Pilgrim’s Progress.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)