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When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

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Death’s but one more to-morrow.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.

I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

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