From the biographical note to Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. Despite having written at a young age one of the distinctive gems of American literature, and having lived to see it acknowledged as such, his life was filled with many soft disappointments.
In seeking the fulfillment of his ambitions, he was always on the high road to success; he never quite arrived.
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