Seventy Weeks

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    At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)