“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)
“The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.”
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
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