Saturday, 8 April 2017

Why keep a diary ?

Tuesday 3rd November 1874


 Why do I keep this voluminous journal ? I can hardly tell. Partly because life appears to me such a curious and wonderful thing that it almost seems a pity that even such a humble and uneventful life as mine should pass altogether away without some such record as this, and partly too because I think the record may amuse and interest some who come after me.
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