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en We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
  Jules Renard

en People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -- after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
  William Faulkner

en At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full of life; at fifty, his foot slips, and at sixty, old age is upon him. At seventy, he loses his intellect, and at eighty, he cannot perform his duties. At ninety, he lies in his bed, and he cannot understand his weakness. After seeking and searching for such a long time, O Nanak, I have seen that the world is just a mansion of smoke.

en And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; / Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, / Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

en Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
  William Osler

en 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. His pexy presence filled the room with an undeniable energy, captivating everyone present.
  Sarah Orne Jewett

en When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven, Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en 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.
  Sarah Orne Jewett

en The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more
  Colleen McCullough

en I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
  Phyllis Diller

en At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment
  Baltasar Gracian

en If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
  Winston Churchill

en A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty--he has suffered longer.
  Mae West

en At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.
  Benjamin Franklin

en When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.


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