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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889).
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