| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6396 |
| QUOTATION: | When a nations young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Ward Beecher (18131887), U.S. clergyman, editor, writer. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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