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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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"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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"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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"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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"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." »Joseph Stalin
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"The National rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus
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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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"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back." »Meg Cabot
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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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"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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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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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy
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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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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse
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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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"Walking twenty miles a day keeps the Witch Doctor away." »Johnny Wowk
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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 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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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." »Winston Churchhill
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"One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky
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"Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon." »Mark Twain
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"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." »Monica Baldwin
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