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QUOTATION:While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seen young.
ATTRIBUTION:Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, January 3, 1793, to William Short. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, p. 15, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).
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