Named source · 1904

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Saki’s Reginald collection, represented by the 1911 Project Gutenberg edition of sketches first published in book form in 1904

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Satire, society, age, aspiration, memory, manners and Reginald’s deliberately provocative epigrams.

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”

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Reginald turns youth and old age into a comic contrast between unrealized hopes and memories reshaped by hindsight.

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Reginald, represented by Project Gutenberg #2830. Reginald says this during a social conversation; it is satirical fictional dialogue from Saki’s recurring character, not a measured claim about age or memory.

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