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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rat

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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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

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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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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. – Source Unknown

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