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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Three Ages of Man
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994), Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), II, 64:
The stupidity of an old man imagines itself to be wisdom; that of an adult, experience; that of a youth, genius.