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Quote by Willa Cather
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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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather

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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 father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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