“Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.”
The Steep Ascent http://books.google.com/books?id=2vRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lost+time+was+like+a+run+in+a+stocking+It+always+got+worse%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage (1944)
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“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”

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When I got older it was worse.”
"The Long Arm of the Law"
Transverse City (1989)
Essays on Education quoted in The New York Times (24 February 1959).
Variant ending: The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education.
Context: Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

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