“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”
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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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