shelby, charles hanson towne, 1921 -- looking back, i sometimes think of all that he missed in the way of good-fellowship.   for we were the most decent staff in new york, as honest and generous and warmly human a bunch as anyone could hope to find.

preface, the snow image and other twice-told tales, nathaniel hawthorne, 1851 -- the ripened autumnal fruit tastes but little better than the early windfalls.

quote in seacoastnh.com about author alice brown, article from 1980, brown wrote from 1884-1935 -- alice brown has been described by one critic as having a "vigorous mind, fine perception, and poetic feeling."   she gave much thought to the times in which she lived.   "I am amazed," she once wrote, "at the human animal who has taken the good gifts of God in scientific discovery for use in havoc and ruin."




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