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“Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, “Goodness, everything was better in the old days.” And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn’t true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.”

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“Among all Crafts this [i.e. clothing manufacture] was the onely chiefe, for that it was the greatest merchandize, by the which our Countrey became famous through all Nations. And it was verily thought, that the one halfe of the people in the land liued in those daies therby, and in such good sort, that in the Common-wealth there were few or no beggers at all : poore people, whom God lightly blesseth with most children, did by meanes of this occupation so order them, that by the time that they were come to be sixe or seuen yeares of 20 age, they were able to get their owne bread : Idlenesse was then banished our coast, so that it was a rare thing to heare of a thiefe in those daies”

Clothing Good Old Days

Book:His Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading And Three Ballads On The Spanish Armada

Source: His Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading And Three Ballads On The Spanish Armada

“The hope that good old days will come back never goes away. They come back sometimes – but then we are so focused on good old days that we fail to recognise good present days.”

Past Nostalgia Good Old Days

Book:The Uncharted Mind

Source: The Uncharted Mind

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