That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Sydney Smith

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Topic

Kids these days The past Old age

Speaker

Sydney Smith

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Humorist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by his Daughter, Lady Holland. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855, vol 1, ch. 11.

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