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An old dog learns no tricks. When persons are old they do not readily conform to new ways. The Latin proverb is “Senex psittacus negligit ferùlam;” the Greeks said, “Nekron iatʹreuein kai geronta nouʹthetein tauton esti;” the Germans say, “Ein alter hund ist nicht gut kundigen.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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