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SOME ONE ELSE by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

First Line: LIVE MY LIFE OVER? I WOULD RATHER NOT
Last Line: AND WERE I YOU, I MIGHT IMPROVE ON YOURS.
Subject(s): ERRORS; EXPERIENCE; LIFE; MISTAKES; FALLACIES;

Live my life over? I would rather not.
Though I could choose, perhaps, a fairer lot,
I cannot hope I should be worthier it,
Or wiser by experience any whit.
Being what I am, I should but do once more
The things that brought me grief and shame before.
But I should really fancy trying again
For some one else who had lived once in vain:
Somehow another's erring life allures;
And were I you, I might improve on yours.



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