Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor 'My boy, never ...' I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
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