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Old Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to…
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
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