Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. (Robertson Davies)

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robertson Davies

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