So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. - Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson: "So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."

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Appearance	Backward	Colors	Contempt
Contrariety	Conversation	Different	Either
Ends	Forward	Future	Generally
Life	Look	Naturally	Opinions
Past	Pity	Produces	Sentiments
Side	Young

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