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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is… — Lewis Carroll
Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them… — Sapphire
Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look. — Steig Larsson
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters… — Michael Ende
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the… — Haruki Murakami
Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss. — Herbie Brennan
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to… — Leo Tolstoy
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very… — Vladimir Nabokov
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late… — Jim Harrison
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die? — John Green
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four… — P.G. Wodehouse
Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go,… — James Patterson
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the… — Markus Zusak
Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people… — Maggie Stiefvater
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity. — William Shakespeare
An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. — Warren Buffett
Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles... — Ilona Andrews
The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody… — Rachel Cohn
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is… — Isaac Asimov
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once… — Grace Paley
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.… — Oscar Wilde
Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp… — Rachel Caine
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the… — Paullina Simons

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