Perhaps; but, bias for bias, I would rather own to that of the romantic schoolboy than to that of the cynical Old-Worldling.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
"I call it a rotten place," said the elderly Worldling.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
To a clay compounded chiefly of the Worldling and the rhetorician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind