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"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."
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"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
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"One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers."
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