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Carl Barks

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

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Donna Grant

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

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Donna Grant

"Everybody is doing the same old thing."

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Donna Grant

"There are more old drunkards than old physicians."

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