• When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist 1869-1946
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1. commonplace
2. nowadays
3. discover
4. gather
5. really
6. never

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When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover. by : Booth Tarkington

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