A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Man is a child of his environment.
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
The little man is still a man.
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
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