The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups (1891). copy citation

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Author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Source Over the Teacups
Topic age father
Date 1891
Language English
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“It is too late to be angry about the abuse a well—meaning writer received thirty years ago. The whole atmosphere has changed since then. It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age. So far as I have observed persons nearing the end of life, the Roman Catholics understand the business of dying better than Protestants. They have an expert by them, armed with spiritual specifics, in which they both, patient and priestly ministrant, place implicit trust.” source