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• Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature...… — Thomas Boston
• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality,… — Max Beerbohm
• The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few. — Seneca the Younger
• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt
• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his… — George Edward Woodberry
• We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the… — Karl Popper
• My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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