“Not a log in this buildin' but its memories has got
And not a nail in this old floor but touches a tender spot.”

—  Will Carleton

Out of the old House, Nancy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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poet. 1845–1912

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