"No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands."
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Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Nixon Waterman
Nixon Waterman (12 November 1859, Newark, Kendall County, Illinois – 1 September 1944, Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts) was a newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s.
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