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  ...deal of exercise."
With that, Ninety-Two-Years shook his head at Eighty-Years and said, "Well, you will never live to be an old man!"--_Sarah Bache Hodge_.
A wise man never puts away childish things.--_Sidney Dark_.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
--_Ben Jonson_.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.--_Disraeli_.
We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.--_Emerson_.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.   --_O.W. Holmes_.

AGENTS
"John, whatever induced you to buy a house in this forsaken region?"
"One of the best men in the business."--_Life_.

AGRICULTURE
A farmer, according to this definition, is a man who makes his money on the farm and spends it in town. An agriculturist is a man who makes his money in town and spends it on the farm.
In certain parts of the west, where without irrigation the cultivators of the land would be in a bad way indeed, the light...
 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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