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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1876–1947), U.S. novelist. Willa Cather in Europe, ch. 14 (1956).

Written on September 16, 1902.

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