The good old days

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The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

Horace

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The good old days

Author

Horace

Source

Odes (Horace)

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 4, no. 2.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, no. 2.

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke

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The good old days Human nature

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No Time like the Old Time

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Source

No Time like the Old Time The Atlantic

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "No Time like the Old Time." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Oct. 1865, st. 1.