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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belo

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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