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It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn gray, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something worthier than their lives.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
November 13, 1850
Died:
December 3, 1894
(aged 44)
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