"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
-J. B. Priestley
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.“
-J. B. Priestley
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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
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"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy."
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"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."
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"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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