"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."

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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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"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."

John Hawley, American Politician

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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

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"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

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