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Alfred the Great Quotes: Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?
         

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?


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