"Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, censor castigatorque minorum,"
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Inert, irresolute, his neck he cranes Into the future, grumbles and complains; Extols his own young years with peevish praise, But rates and censures these degenerate days. — Horace, Ars Poetica, 172 ("The Old Fogey", tr. John Conington). Cited in: Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 545
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