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- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
- Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from… — Erma Bombeck
- If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of… — Lenny Bruce
- The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits… — Smedley Butler