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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

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“Cats — by day the most docile of God's creatures, everyone of them in the night enlisting under the devil's banner — took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.”

William Henry Davies book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XXV

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“People are not to be blamed for their doubts, but that they make no effort to arrive at the truth.”

William Henry Davies book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XXXIV

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“What a glorious time of the year is this [Spring]! With the warm sun travelling through serene skies, the air clear and fresh above you, which instils new blood in the body, making one defiantly tramp the earth, kicking the snows aside in the scorn of action.”

William Henry Davies book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XIX

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