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title: "4 Used Better Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cleveland-amory/a-good-family-it-seems-is-one-that-used-to-be-better/)

[Cleveland Amory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cleveland-amory/)

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> [To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-mangan/to-say-it-used-to-be-better-nobody-can-say-well-no-it-wasn-t-it-s/)

[Dan Mangan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-mangan/)

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> [At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-woollcott/at-83-shaw-s-mind-was-perhaps-not-quite-as-good-as-it-used-to-be-but/)

[Alexander Woollcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-woollcott/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb1/alexander-woollcott-19145_anyone_at-83-shaw-s-mind-was-perhaps-not-quite_2177913.png)

> [He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-tyler/he-wished-he-had-inhabited-more-of-his-life-used-it-better-filled-it/)

[Anne Tyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-tyler/)

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