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Excerpt from Musings of a Middle-Aged Woman And you, men and women, sisters and brothers! All who are in the noontide of your strength; who have achieved independence of thought and action! What have you lost? Nay, I see it in the faces of even the happiest among you. In yours, successful man - suc cessful in business, in love, in fame. I have seen you stop, and look with longing eye at the boys ying their kites or at the youngster coming home from school, with his satchel of books; and I knew (though you only appeared to wipe your nose) that you gave a tear to school-day pleasures and friendships, and the zest which sweetened all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.