“Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
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“He was as young as twenty years allowed, and as old as it could make him.”
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 815)

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Phantasmagoria (1869)

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Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 3, hadith number 359
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“The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.”
III, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

Source: Short fiction, Against Babylon (1986), p. 276