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" But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that to the Registry books. A man is as old as he's feeling ; A woman, as old as she looks... "
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The Inn of Strange Meetings, and Other Poems

Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 208 pages
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...young ' — for this reason,' They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER. SWEET, sweet, with the fairy feet, Hasten down to the river-side, Where the lilies...
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The Inn of Strange Meetings, and Other Poems

Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 206 pages
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...truths should be told : ' Whom the gods love, die young'—for this reason, 1 They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER. SWEET, sweet, with the fairy feet,...
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The Inn of Strange Meetings and Other Poems, Issue 246

Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 214 pages
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...festival season Tis fit that great truths should be told : I ' Whom the gods love, die young ' — for this reason,' They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER....
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 90

1877 - 832 pages
...which date he wasattaining what in most cases are reckoned years of discretion, being twentyeight. But wherefore one's age be revealing? Leave that to...is as old as he's feeling ; A woman as old as she looki. * * * . # * Whom the gods love, die young— for this reason They cannot grow old. The beautiful...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...which date he was attaining what in most cases are reckoned years of discretion, being twentyeight. But wherefore one's age be revealing? Leave that to...is as old as he's feeling ; A woman as old as she looki. * # + * * Whom the gods love, die young — for this reason They cannot grow old. The beautiful...
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Epigrams & epigraphs, by the author of Proverbial folk-lore

Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 pages
...The melancholy news that we are old. But wherefore our Age be revealing ? Leave that to the Eegistry books ; A man is as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks ! Mortimer Collins. ON DEAN SWIFT'S LEGACY. He left to Ireland all he had To build a house for fools...
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The Random Recollections of a Commercial Traveller

1909 - 448 pages
...public reference to an interval so widely dividing girlhood from matronage : — Why should we our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books...old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. . It is distinctly noticeable that in a general way waitresses carry their age much more serenely than...
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Epigrams

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1915 - 150 pages
...Old Hecuba young Helen. W. COWPER (from the Greek Anthology). The Unknown Quantity O WHEREFORE our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books ! A man is as old as he 's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. MORTIMER COLLINS. Celia CEIIA, we know, is sixty-five,...
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Epigrams, Wit & Wisdom in Brief

Walter Jerrold - 1926 - 264 pages
...wonder the debate fell dead 'Neath such a constant fire of lead. How OLD ARE You ? O wherefore our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books...old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. To A FRIEND ON RECEIVING A BRACE OF WOODCOCKS. My thanks I'll no longer delay For birds which you've...
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At Her Age

Eve Merriam - 1983 - 68 pages
...cartwheel-brimmed hat and enormous sunglasses.) . . Because, as we know from the Book of Great Quotations, "a man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks". Mortimer Collins, eighteen twenty-seven, eighteen seventy-six. WILMA. How can she see out of those?...
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