As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.
Mark TwainReputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
Mark TwainWhich is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
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