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When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon.
So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

Source: From The LIFE 101 Quote Book, an internet collection of quotations.
-- Booth Tarkington, (Jul 29 1869-1946), US novelist, dramatist; He is best-known for his satirical and sometimes romanticized pictures of American Midwesterners.

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