Wednesday, October 06, 2021
Unripe
Grant Showerman (1870-1935), With the Professor (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910), p. 70 (Mr. Homo to Dr. Scholarship):
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You may be a scholar yet, but don't think that you must do it right away. You are not ripe for it now. What are you about, anyway, trying to write books at thirty? One might think you had some great message for the world! Bless your heart, you don't know enough yet to write anything worth putting into print! You haven't lived enough or thought enough to possess real knowledge.Related post: Forty.
