Numbers - 30 Today is the 30th of December. Thirty, in ancient
times, was the minimum age for a tribune in ancient Rome ("A man
at 30 must be either a fool or a physician" - Tiberius), and was
the age, according to biblical tradition, at which both Moses
and Jesus began their public preaching. In more recent times,
writers have expressed differing opinions of the effects of
reaching the age of thirty: "For a young man, a woman of thirty
has irresistible attractions." (Balzac, The Woman of Thirty,
1832). "Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a
thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of
enthusiasm, thinning hair." (Scott Fitzgerald, The Great …
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Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Independent
(London, England). Publication date: December 3, 1994. Page
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