I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought go to away and write a book about it

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

If you cannot say what you have to say in 20 minutes, you should go away and write a book about it

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.