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Now I like gray hair and I
Now I like gray hair, and I also like eyes that meet mine calmly and as a matter of course when the owner is talking to me.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

name in Lydia gave him advice in
Whilst Crœsus was preparing for his expedition against the Persians, a Lydian named Sandanis, who before that time was esteemed a wise man, and on this occasion acquired a very great name in Lydia, gave him advice in these words: "O king, you are preparing to make war against a people who wear leather trousers, and the rest of their garments of leather; who inhabit a barren country, and feed not on such things as they choose, but such as they can get.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

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