Status Updates From Brideshead Revisited

"How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. there is no candor in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours, which like zero on the roulette table turn up with roughly calcuable regularity"