Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.


Becket, Prologue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.