"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous."

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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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Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."

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"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

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"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society."

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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."

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"But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts."

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"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."

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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

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"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."

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