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life. It is only with age that one realises the full truth 

 of Goethe's quatrain : 



Eine Bruche ist ein jeder Tag, etc. 

 and again : 



The x Club is going to smithereens, as if a charge of 

 dynamite had been exploded in the midst of it. Busk is 

 slowly fading away. Tyndall is, I fear, in a bad way, 

 and I am very anxious about Hooker : 



still the club hung together for many years, and 

 outside it were other devoted friends, who would 

 have echoed Dr. Foster's good wishes on the last day 

 of the year : 



A Happy New Year ! and many of them, and may 

 you more and more demonstrate the folly of strangling 

 men at sixty. 



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