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  • The days of our years arethreescore years and ten; and if by reasonof strengththey be fourscore years, yet istheir strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 90:10.

  • Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
      A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

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