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60 years old and still getting crushes on other men's wives. I hope that when I'm your age, I'll be a little bit smarter than that.
— Carl ‧ Nobody's Fool
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An editorial interpretation.
A younger speaker scolds an older man for still chasing infatuations with other people's spouses at sixty. There's a sting in hoping to be wiser by that age, implying that getting older doesn't automatically make you smarter about the heart.
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