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"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
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"I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons."
"And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final day, the final night had come. As the day grew late they realized that for two or three nights now, porches had emptied early of their inhabitants. The air hard a different, drier smell and Grandma was talking of hot coffee instead of iced tea; the open, white-flutter-curtained windows were closing in the great bays; cold cuts were giving way to steamed beef. The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground."
"When it is summer, enjoy it, but you must also prepare for winter."
"I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons."
"Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth. It has no day."
"Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations."
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"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals."
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