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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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Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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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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Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr

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