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

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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

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