The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But when we turn further and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise then all begins to grow clear and legible.

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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown ol

Of these years nought remains in memory, but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers and ceases to be a child.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

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