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"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun." »Robert Herrick
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"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb
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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." »Elie Wiesel
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five" »George Gordon Byron
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"What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more." »Samuel Butler
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"When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me." »A.E. Houseman
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"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob A. Riis
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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob August Riis
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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." »John Burroughs
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"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift." »Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens
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"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty." »Billy Wilder
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"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him." »Helen Rowland
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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." »Woody Allen
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"I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day." »Jesse Barfield
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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you." »Alan Alexander Milne
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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." »Winnie the Pooh
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"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am." »Samuel Johnson
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"Walking twenty miles a day keeps the Witch Doctor away." »Johnny Wowk
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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more." »Collen McCullough
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"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it." »Jules Renard
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy
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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse
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"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." »Lord Brabazon
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"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon." »Mark Twain
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