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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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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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