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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
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Where id was, there shall ego be.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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Maturity is knowing when to be immature.
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Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
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Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.
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When the apple is ripe it will fall.
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
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Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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