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We live out a Youth peculiarly haunted by such dreams ; yet never mistaking them for dreams . As Memories we know them . During our Youth the distinction is too clear to deceive us even for a moment . So long as this Youth endures ...
We live out a Youth peculiarly haunted by such dreams ; yet never mistaking them for dreams . As Memories we know them . During our Youth the distinction is too clear to deceive us even for a moment . So long as this Youth endures ...
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They make shift to live merely by conformity , practically as their fathers did , and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men . But why do men degenerate ever ? What makes families run out ?
They make shift to live merely by conformity , practically as their fathers did , and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men . But why do men degenerate ever ? What makes families run out ?
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I did not wish to live what was not life , living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation , unless it was quite necessary . I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life , to live so sturdily and Spartan - like ...
I did not wish to live what was not life , living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation , unless it was quite necessary . I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life , to live so sturdily and Spartan - like ...
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| Title | American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 1 American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Compiled by | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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