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At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé at thirty, almost senile at forty, not so old and at fifty, positively skittish.

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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
Humorist
Journalist
Fifty
Thirty
Blas
Twenty
Skittish
Twenties
Senile
Almost
Awfully
Feels
Aged
Men
Positively
Forty

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