G.A. Henty Quotes

There is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

G.A. Henty

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• There is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Life
  • Changes
  • Excitement