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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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  • 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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  • Oscar Wilde One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Malcolm Bradbury Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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