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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde (Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Quotes)

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Source:Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (December 1894); in The Writings of Oscar Wilde (ed. Gabriel Wells, 1925), Volume X, Page 214
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