Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 1956

Tuesday, September 4, 1956

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens

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— W. T. Richardson —
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— Elizabeth Seaton —
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— Henry Ward Beecher —
"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
— Will Durant —

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Illustration of Charles Dickens — "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

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