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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
t. Proximus ardet Ucalegon. My neighbor's house is gone, and the conflagration must reach mine very soon. . . . . I have still enough to do to keep me contented, and to encourage me to work on. I hope, as long as I have strength, that I shall never be in want of occupation for others. Old people, I think, take little pleasure in working for themselves. . . . . Believe me always faithfully and affectionately yours, Geo. Ticknor. To Robert H. Gardiner, Esq., Gardiner. Boston, January 14, 1864. my dear Mr. Gardiner,—We receive constantly the most gratifying accounts of your condition, in whatever, at this stage of your progress onwards, is important and consoling. But when I turn to tell you so, and put pen to paper, even in answer to your pleasant letter of last week, I stop and hesitate what I shall say. It seems as if the words that have to travel so far, along with the every-day business of common life, must grow hollow and unmeaning before they reach you, while I wo