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There are so many things—best things—that can only come when youth is past, that it may well happen to many of us to find ourselves happier and happier to the last.
There are so many things—best things—that can only come when youth is past, that it may well happen to many of us to find ourselves happier and happier to the last.
Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- George Eliot
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- Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 266; printed byline: George Eliot; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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