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" You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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" Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. "
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