Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]

Essay (1945-12), Review of Herbert Read, A Coat of Many Colours, Poetry Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1945, Winter)
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