Rudyard Kipling has a rather righteous view of manhood in his poem If
http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html
I just turned 26 and everytime I suspect that I have grown up I grow up some more; so I don't think we ever stop developing. However I suspect that being a "grown up" could be defined as a particular stage of this development when we take responsibility for ourselves and those we love.
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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
-- Heinz Pagels, "The Dreams of Reason"
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