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Quotes from Autobiography — Francis Parkman

1823–1893 United States

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If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

Autobiography (1868)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Parkman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.