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— Molly Elliot Seawell"Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old."
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Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.
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The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.
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