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"It does last," Horace said. "Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it."

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell — Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Adlai Stevenson II, American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 (1900–1965)

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They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.