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The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

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Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ↗

— Luther Burbank

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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. ↗

— George Burns

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Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues. ↗

— Chuck Zito

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me. ↗

— John Hughes

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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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