1. "Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit."
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Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
2. "the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother."
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Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
3. "Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!"
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Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning
4. "They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs."
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Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
5. "Old, decrepit Norris Quay was the richest man in California, but not anymore. He’s severely dead."
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Richard Kadrey, The Getaway God
6. "could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind."
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William Wordsworth, Poems in Two Volumes
7. "I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck."
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Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
8. "The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults"
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Tite Kubo, Bleach―ブリーチ― 53 [Burīchi 53]
9. "If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit."
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George Eliot, Middlemarch
10. "the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother."
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Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim