The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
Henry Louis Mencken
Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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