“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
“Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?”
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
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