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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.

— Sarah Orne Jewett Misattributed

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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

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