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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
  The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them....
• I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.
  -- Excerpt from insurance form....
• What do you want me to do? Say it again in worse English?
  -- Robert Frost, when asked about the meaning of one of his poems....
• Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of ma
  o-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him...
• A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unrolled.
  We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell has already rung....
• When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.
  Well, I found her -- but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. -- Robert Schuma...
• There was a young poet named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan.
  When told this was so, He said, "Yes, I know....