“The person I have the honor of nominating today as our Senate President Pro Tempore may be a young at 49 years of age. But don’t let his supposedly youthful looks deceive you.”

2013, Speech: Nomination of Senator Ralph Recto as Senate Pro Tempore

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“To silver may age never turn your hair!
And may I ever keep the looks of youth!”

Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer

Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 363–364

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