In every age

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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What is the charm that makes old things so sweet? – Sarah Doudney, “Between the Lights,” c.1875

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