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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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4.5 · 48 votes

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

4.6 · 36 votes

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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

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PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

3.1 · 25 votes · 187 reads

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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

3.0 · 45 votes

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

4.0 · 57 votes · 140 reads

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

4.9 · 39 votes · 185 reads

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

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PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

3.1 · 24 votes

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

4.1 · 37 votes · 133 reads

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