...the planet offers hardly a dozen places where an elderly man can pass a week alone without ennui, and none at all where he can pass a year. (Henry Adams)

...the planet offers hardly a dozen places where an elderly man can pass a week alone without ennui, and none at all where he can pass a year.

Henry Adams

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