If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature I have won myself a tender place in no regard I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses would they not
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