The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter

Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama] (1933)
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