When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. (Sarah Orne Jewett)

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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