#fifty

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

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The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country. ↗

— Brad Holland

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. ↗

— H. L. Hunt

#loveliness #man

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗