• Fontenelle... said, you remember, to the damsel of eighteen, 'Ah, Madam, would that I were eighty once more.

  Source: Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1 April 1921

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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3. eighteen
4. eighty
5. would

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Fontenelle... said, you remember, to the damsel of eighteen, 'Ah, Madam, would that I were eighty once more. by : Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

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