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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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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – 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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A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. – Abraham Flexner

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