"One thing constant throughout the ages is the belief that old people are tiresome and absurd β a most wholesome belief, since it is the cause of progress. The only periods for which there is no hope are the periods in which the young respect the old."
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"Changing fashions in reserve" (8 February 1933), pp. 157β158
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