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A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.