“The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.”

The Autobiography of Captain Digby Grand, p. 672 of Fraser's Magazine, vol. 46, December 1852 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0013488754;view=1up;seq=680

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