"It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired."
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"I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible."
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"There is no dunce like a mature dunce."
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"Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered."
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"Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering."
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"Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves."
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"Precocious talents mature slowly if at all."
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"I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."
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"In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'"
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"I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them."
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"There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?"
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"All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve."
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"Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature."
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"Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature."
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"We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us."
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"The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes."
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"By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold."
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"He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal."
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"I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time."
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"compromise is the work of mature people."
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