I'm Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
I've lived without a dame
From youth-time on: and would to God
My dad had done the same.
Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928. The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, ed. Grigson, 1977, p. 186.
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