Goldsmith Score

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“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)