“No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk—handsome, twentytwoyearold.”

—  W. Somerset Maugham

Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Cloud in Trousers
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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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