"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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"I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways."

"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

"I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious."

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