If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. (I. F. Stone)

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

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