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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Anthony Trollope

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Deceive Else Men No One Succeed Themselves
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Beware Create Tedium
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Alloy Fade Habit Know One Only Other Pleasure Read When
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Can Jug One Only Pour
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Dose Poison Small Success Taken
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