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"We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"There are more old drunkards than old physicians."
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"The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money."
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"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"
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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing."
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"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."
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"We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames."
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"There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again."
Life
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