W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

A Man Who Is A Politician At Forty Is A Statesman At Three Score And Ten. It Is At This Age, When He Would Be Too Old To Be A Clerk Or A Gardener Or A Police-court Magistrate, That He Is Ripe To Govern A Country. This Is Not So Strange When You Reflect That From The Earliest Times The Old Have Rubbed It Into The Young That They Are Wiser Than They, And Before The Young Had Discovered What Nonsense This Was They Were Old Too, And It Profited Them To Carry On The Imposture ...

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