Famous quotes containing the word twenty:
“It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Minerva House ... was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“Helicon: It takes one day to make a senator and ten years to make a worker.
Caligula: But I am afraid that it takes twenty years to make a worker out of a senator.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
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