“He was getting to be a little old for combat or for princesses, but what was worse, he had become a lot more cynical without having become even slightly the wiser.”
Prologue, “A Frame on Randolph” (p. 18)
The Quincunx of Time (1973)
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“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473

from: 'Lebenserinnerungen', 1938
Source: 1936 - 1941, Life Memories' (1938), p. 23

Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 228
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity

Source: "On Truth," 1934, p. 19 (1961 edition)

Source: Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book (1913), p. 197