[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. - John Burroughs

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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

John Burroughs

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

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