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Booth Tarkington

“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.”

Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
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The Magnificent Ambersons The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
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