His readers trusted and loved him. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women. . . . . . . Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds. . . . . . . . . . . . Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy. . . . . . . . . Old man's disposition to speak of his infirmities. . . . . . . . . . . . Old man's tendency to revert to the past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Person who wished to talk when he could listen . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reformers, who are so often tedious and ridiculous . . . . . . . . . . . Secret of the man who is universally interesting . . . . . . . . . . . . Sought the things that he could agree with you upon. . . . . . . . . . . Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity . . . . . . . . . Study in a corner by the porch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best. . . . . . . . Times when a man's city was a man's country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Turn of the talk toward the mystical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Work gives the impression of an uncommon continuity. . . . . . . . . . .
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