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“He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.”
Chanakya
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
William Shakespeare
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
Mark Twain
“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?”
Janis Joplin
“Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows”
“A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.”
William Wordsworth
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more”
Colleen McCullough
“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
“I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality”
Heywood C. Broun
