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Updated: July 7, 2025

Most of the truly great artists have been men of this Stone Age quality men who dared. Franz Hals, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Botticelli were all men of fierce appetites and heroic physiques. They had animality plus that would have carried them across the century-mark, had they not drawn checks on futurity, in a belief that their bank- balance was unlimited.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 : Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists

Occurring from nine years to the ordinary time of puberty, many cases are recorded. Instances of protracted menstruation are, as a rule, reliable, the individuals themselves being cognizant of the nature of true menstruation, and themselves furnishing the requisite information as to the nature and periodicity of the discharge in question. Such cases range even past the century-mark.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine