That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. — Sydney Smith
That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present.
1845
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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 11.


