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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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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.

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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

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When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

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