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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
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London
England
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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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