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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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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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"It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that."
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"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."
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"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma."
Old
"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
Success
"People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them."
People
"The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender."
Work
"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
Truth
"Any stigma will do to beat a dogma."
Will
"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
History
"Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be."
Writing
"Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment."
Success
"Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium."
History
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