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The thing that keeps life keen is that you can never figure out what's ahead.
There's always a surprise around the corner. The thing changes on you, to use an expression of the vernacular. One begins in an English drawing-room and winds up on the Gobi Desert. You never know where the road's going. Take it in big things, or take it in the trivialities of life-it's the same system.