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New furniture has no charms for me compared with old. It is the oldthings that we love--the old faces, the old books, the old jokes. Newfurniture can make a palace, but it takes old furniture to make ahome. Not merely old in itself--lodging-house furniture generally isthat--but it must be old to us, old in associations and recollections.
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