One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition … - Henry James

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Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Henry James

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

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