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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage. – Hesiod

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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. – Hesiod

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. – Victor Hugo

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Old age begins at forty-six years, according to the common opinion. – Cicero/Holmes

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