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… they are big children all their life long — a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man, who is man in the strict sense of the word.
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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2010.05.31 Monday