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"There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all."
"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself."
"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
"The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics."
"In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other."
"Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!"
"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
"If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men."
"Young heads take example of the ancient"
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
"Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . ."
"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
"I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces."
"It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one."
"I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre."
"The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations."
"I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!"
