“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.”
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.