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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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seven ages of man
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The divisions of life, best known in English in the version recounted by Jaques in *As You Like It. In the speech beginning 'All the world's a stage', he says that each of us plays many parts and that the acts of our play are seven ages: the puking infant; the whining schoolboy; the lover, sighing like a furnace; the soldier, full of strange oaths; the round-bellied justice; the lean and slippered pantaloon; and finally second childishness, 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything'.
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