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Joseph Jefferson came to his artistic spurs slowly but surely, being nearly thirty years of age when he got his chance, and therefore wholly equal to it and prepared for it.
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Watterson reflects on Joseph Jefferson's gradual rise to artistic prominence later in life.
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What is to be,” says the predestinarian Mother Goose, “will be, though it never come to pass.
O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
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