| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30860 |
| 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 (17431826), 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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