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Like him,
they look with benevolence and love upon the world from which they
will soon depart."
"Take my word for it, uncle, they will postpone their departure
to the last possible moment, and, so far from looking with smiles
upon what they are about to leave for ever, they will leave it with
very great reluctance, and in monstrous bad humor. As for regarding
their children with any such notions as those you dwell upon with
such poetical raptures, they will infinitely prefer transmitting
for themselves their names and qualities to the very end of the
chapter. Ask any one of them the question now, and he will tell you
that an immortality, each, in his own wig-wam, and with his weight
of years and infirmity upon him, would satisfy all his expectations.
If they look at the vigor of their young, it is to recollect that
they themselves once were so, and to repine at the recollection.
Take my word for it, there is not a dad among them, that does not
envy his own son the excellence of his limbs, and the long time of
exercise and enjoyment which they seemingly assure him.


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