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For horse-racing, only the trotting-course existed. Of all pleasures,
winter sleighing was still the gayest and most popular. From none
of these amusements could the boy learn anything likely to be of
use to him in the world. Books remained as in the eighteenth
century, the source of life, and as they came out -Thackeray,
Dickens, Bulwer, Tennyson, Macaulay, Carlyle, and the rest —
they were devoured; but as far as happiness went, the happiest
hours of the boy's education were passed in summer lying on a
musty heap of Congressional Documents in the old farmhouse
at Quincy, reading "Quentin Durward," "Ivanhoe," and " The
Talisman," and raiding the garden at intervals for peaches and
pears. On the whole he learned most then.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Contributors: Henry Adams - author. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1918. Page Number: 39.
    
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