A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.
A new person is to me a great ...
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.