Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Robert C. Winthrop” in chapter 29, page 306 of Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1:
...nnial at Los Angeles.
These were very interesting, but the activity shown made me feel my age, and its one great infirmity, loss of power of locomotion.
I felt somehow the truth of the line which Mr. Robert C. Winthrop once quoted to me:--
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.
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