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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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- Oscar Wilde (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 23 · quotation 4 · Oscar Wilde · A Woman of no Importance. Act I.
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