Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner by the fireside with your slippers on your feet?
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.