Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth…

Soren Kierkegaard
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (1946). Either/or
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