The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.

Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

El viejo por no poder, y el mozo por no saber, dejan las cosas perder.

The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.

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