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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a si

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. – John Jay Chapman

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Young twigs will bend, but not old trees. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Woordenboek der Nederduitsche en Fransche Taalen/ Dicti

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky

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