It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance....

“ It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out. ”

Sarah Orne Jewett

From : The Country of the Pointed Firs