Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
 Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759). copy citation

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“The young man, who intends no ill, believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour; but his father; having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect and too often allured to practise it. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Thus parents and children for the greatest part live on to love less and less; and if those whom Nature has thus closely united are the torments of each other, where shall we look for tenderness and consolations?»” source

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