Thoughts For The Times
“The Good Old Days. The “good old days” are as much as illusion as the good times coming. The “good old days” are an idealistic hallucination indulged in by those poor pessimists who despise the present and fear the future hut admire a past of which they know except that it can never return to worry them with its troubles. Therefore no particular date can be fixed, for each individual will paint an imaginary and unhistorical picture of his own and make this his idea of the “good old days.” The “good old times” —when old are good— Are gocie; tho present might be if they would; Great things have been, and are, and greater still Want little of mere mortals but their will.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1921, Page 2
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128Thoughts For The Times Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1921, Page 2
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