были когда-то и мы рысаками

• БЫЛИ КОГДА-ТО И МЫ РЫСАКАМИ{{}}

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⇒ (said when a person is recalling his youth, happier days, and his youthful derring-do) there was a time when we, too, were young and in our prime:

- we too had our hour of glory;

- we too were young and daring once.

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← From Aleksei Apukhtin's poem "A Team of Bays" ("Пара гнедых"), 1895. The original line has "вы" (rather than "мы").