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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. – Charles Dudley Warner

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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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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. – Henry David Thoreau

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