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«At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?»
«He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.»
Author: Mary Wilson Little | About: Study | Keywords: devotes, sixteen, sixty
«I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.»
«Dear Miss .I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants ... keep your manuscript for your s»
«But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Abijah, fourteen, sixteen
«He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: reign, sixteen
«Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: sixteen
«I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.»
«At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.»
«A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go.»
Author: Turkish Proverb | Keywords: ounces, sixteen

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