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| Science is the nourishment of youth and the delight of old age | Науки юношей питают, отраду старым подают (Mikhail Lomonosov, An Ode, 1747. Actually, these lines are from Cicero's Pro Archia. VLZ_58) |
| the lore of ages long gone by, in hoar antiquity compounded | Дела давно минувших дней, преданья старины глубокой (Alexander Pushkin, Ruslan And Liudmila, Canto 1. Transl. by Walter Arndt.) |