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Quote by Milton Greenblatt
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. – Milton Greenblatt

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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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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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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

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A home without books is a body without soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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