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A Man for the Ages

CHAPTER VIII
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"Life is more than friendship.

It is partly meat." "And mostly Kelso," said Dr.Allen.
"Ah, Doctor! Long life has made you as smooth as an old shilling and nimbler than a sixpence," Kelso declared.

"And, speaking of life, Aristotle said that the learned and the unlearned were as the living and the dead." "It is true," Abe interposed.

"I say it, in spite of the fact that it slays me." "You?
No! You are alive to your finger tips," Kelso answered.
"But I have mastered only eight books," said Abe.
"And one--the book of common sense, and that has wised you," Kelso went on.

"Since I came to this country I have learned to beware of the one-book man.


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