“To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.”
― The House of the Seven Gables
― The House of the Seven Gables
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STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”
― Our Town
STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”
― Our Town
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