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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to th

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. – Source Unknown

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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[A]t present my chief work is on the manuscripts of the library—a blessed lot, as nothing could be more interesting, as bringing me into close touch with the ancients, to whom I now belong. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909 #oldsoul

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

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