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| fc14fa5 | It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption. | hopelessness morality amorality growing-old corruption immorality cynicism | H. Rider Haggard |