"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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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."

"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

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

"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight."

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."

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