#senilit

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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#certain #conceited #countries #god #hate

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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#fairies #hero-worship #john-f-kennedy #kennedy-family #politics