There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
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- Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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- Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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