You are too old and too exacting to be satisfied with a blank page. You would certainly prefer one upon which life has written something. It is more interesting. Young girls are only for youths and for certain brainless doddards.
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You are too old and too exacting to be satisfied with a blank page. You would certainly prefer one upon which life has written something. It is more interesting. Young girls are only for youths and for certain brainless doddards.
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President Roosevelt and the former King Edward collect stamps, along with thousands of others, ranging from six-year-olds to ninety-seven year old^([sic]) doddards.
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Nelly. There are some people who enjoy Sunday. / Renny. Yes . . . the old doddards who listen to military bands in the public park.
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Comments John Garth, critic of the San Francisco Argonaut: “When the young student leaves art school and starts his career as a producing artist, his utter contempt for those moss-backed old doddards, the Old Masters, is complete and vocal. After ten years of the heat of the struggle, he stands silent before the Old Masters and removes his hat.”
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