A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
一个人发现自己在人生此前的每个阶段都错了,却由此得出一个惊人的结论:这一次,他终于完全正确了。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Crabbed Age and Youth —