A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
