The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
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