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Our tastes greatly...

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Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Spring 1776 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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