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Generations Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
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