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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Francis M. Voltaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 126 · printed citation: Voltaire · subject: Ideas
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