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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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