Miscellanea

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Generational Criticism and Nostalgia

And it is sometimes the fault of old people to discourage the services of the present age by crying up too much the performances and attainments of the former age.

Matthew Henry
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