“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.”

— George Whyte-Melville

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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