“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
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