At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. Marilyn Monroe
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron
As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. Mick Jagger
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. Jerry Saltz
seventeen in Afrikaans is sewentien
seventeen in Danish is sytten
seventeen in Dutch is zeventien
seventeen in French is dix-sept, dix sept
seventeen in German is siebzehn
seventeen in Italian is diciassette, diciasette
seventeen in Norwegian is sytten
seventeen in Portuguese is dezessete, dazassete
seventeen in Spanish is diecisiete
seventeen in Swedish is sjutton
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