Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!"

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!"" in the context of "Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932), ch. 3" to mean that wisdom is timeless.