Twentytwo Quotes
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I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.
judy lamarsh— CHAPTER 1, In the beginning, p. 3
Reginald in his wildest lapses into veracity never admits to being more than twenty-two.
saki— "Reginald" (Reginald (1904))
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.
sydney smith— "Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States", published in The Edinburgh Review (1820).
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, “Let’s go. He’s starting to develop.”
claude debussy— Ruth Ruggles Akers, in "Vive la France, March 19" at The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra site (2010)
