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the good old days
«In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
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consisted, intolerable, myth, the good old days
«Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.»
Author: Doug Larson
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Nostalgia
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edges, file, nostalgia, removes, the good old days
«There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.»
«Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
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Goodbye
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good-bye, goodbye, the good old days
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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bathtub, cashier, cashiers, closing, colleague, incomprehensibility, irregularly, pipe, rival, shaped, the good old days, The Standard, unfavorably, waste paper, waste pipe