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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Old England liberty - to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • John Selden Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Josh Billings Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Boris Johnson Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.
    Andrew Pierce, Boris on a roll, The Times, 29 April 2005, p. 40.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anita Brookner Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Adams Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Tacitus Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carroll Quigley On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bode Miller One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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