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G. Stanley Hall Quotes: Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.
         

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.


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