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W. Somerset Maugham wrote his Far Eastern Tales in the early 20th century, but you know, no matter how much things have changed, nothing has changed. In the story Footprints in hte Jungle, for instance, this passage begins with a a man named Gaze describing someone he knew, with Maugham's response after that.

"...He was about thirty-five when I met him, but he had the mind of a boy of eighteen. You know how many fellows when they come out East seem to stop growing."
I did indeed. One of the most disconcerting things to the traveller is to see stout, middle-aged gentlemen, with bald heads, speaking and acting like schoolboys. You might thing that no idea has entered their heads since they first passed through the Suez Canal. Though married and fathers of children, and perhaps in control of large businesses, they continue to look upon life from the standpoint of the sixth form.