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The Witch of Prague

CHAPTER III
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I live here.

It is a city for old men.

It is saturnine.

The foundations of its houses rest on the silurian formation, which is more than can be said for any other capital, as far as I know." "Is that an advantage ?" inquired the Wanderer.
"To my mind.

I would say to my son, if I had one--my thanks to a blind but intelligent destiny for preserving me from such a calamity!--I would say to him, 'Spend thy youth among flowers in the land where they are brightest and sweetest; pass thy manhood in all lands where man strives with man, thought for thought, blow for blow; choose for thine old age that spot in which, all things being old, thou mayest for the longest time consider thyself young in comparison with thy surroundings.' A man can never feel old if he contemplates and meditates upon those things only which are immeasurably older than himself.


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