The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask
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I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good F
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It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there is
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Why should I keep holiday
When other men have none?
Why but because, when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
When other men have none?
Why but because, when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except
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You know, when these New Negroes have their convention--that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. R
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
With a broad shoehorn
I am unstuffing a big bird in this dream ...
I am unstuffing a big bird in this dream ...
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