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.

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• 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.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Work
  • Men
  • Nature