Famous quotes containing the word twenty:
“Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.”
—Orville Wright (18711948)
“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rankd us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yokd us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Diemans Land.”
—Unknown. Van Diemans Land (l. 912)
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my lifethe first twenty years of ithad about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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