As I get older (and my 74th birthday is now close), I get deeper and deeper into nostalgia. I do not fight this, because nostalgia seems to me to be rational as well as agreeable. Things really aren’t what they once were. ‘But people have always said that,’ is often the response.
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N.M. Gwynne is the author of Gwynne’s Grammar and Gwynne’s Latin.
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