’T were a dull old world, methinks, my friend,
If we all just went one way;
Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end,
Though they lead apart today.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist

Poem (1879), “Advice,” st. 4, Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)
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