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Bernard Shaw somewhere insists that all men who are over forty--presumably with the exception of himself--are scoundrels. Perhaps. But they are also potential philosophers. For I do not believe that it is possible to arrive at the breadth and depth, the balance and perception, which must mark the approach to philosophy, before that age.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 147