“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
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