Grand Marquis

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“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)