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“A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.”

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Mortimer Collins

The Unknown Quantity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;
Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!
Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;
Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

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Mortimer Collins

The Positivists, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher!
Of magic matter: give it a slight toss over
The ambient ether—and I don’t see why
You should n’t make a sky.”

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Mortimer Collins

Sky-Making. (To Professor Tyndall), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)