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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset : From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431

 

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