“Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.”

“I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord.""Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.”

“Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately.“Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.”

“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. ”

“There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.”

“Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.”