Anne Perry:
Germany was marvellous. I flew from Inverness to Edinburgh to Birmingham to Munich. Of course they offloaded my baggage in Birmingham-but isn't that par for the course?

Hosea Ballou said:

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

 
 

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